Re: /proc/<pid>/status

Bartlomiej Czardybon (czar@dumb.iinf.polsl.gliwice.pl)
Tue, 14 May 1996 19:57:37 +0200 (MET DST)


On Tue, 14 May 1996, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote:

> On Tue, 14 May 1996, Bartlomiej Czardybon wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > ps -aux | grep bash on 1.2.13:
> > USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> > czar 1966 0.0 2.9 110 332 pp3 S 18:20 0:00 (bash)
> >
>
> This process is partally swaped out (that's why the () ;) ^^^^^^^
Thanks, That is what I know
>
> > and on 1.3.100
> > USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> > root 86 0.1 6.4 1140 452 1 S 20:00 0:13 -bash
> >
>
> this one's all in memory ....
! :)
>
> > What happened to SIZE and RSS fields ???
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > I've alse noticed using top that kswap has PRI and NI fields equal -12
> > What does it mean ? Other processes have these fields set to 0.
> >
>
> NI is the niceness of a process, setting this high on a background process
> process run faster. The PRI field is the kernels internal priority for
Thanks for info about it.
But I still DONT understand why SIZE fields in first and second ps differ
so much.
>
> > TIA for any information,
> >
> Bryn
> --
>

Bartlomiej Czardybon
Silesian Technical University - Faculty of Computer Science