Re: ProcPS in 1.2.13 and 1.3.100

Jared Mauch (jared@wolverine.hq.cic.net)
Wed, 15 May 1996 22:46:58 -0400 (EDT)


Are you using the latest procps?

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- jared

Bartlomiej Czardybon graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
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> Hello
> I'd like to know ( if it's not a problem) what is the SIZE field
> reported by top. Top under kernel 1.2.13 displays:
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RES SHRD STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
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> czar 27 0 103 456 476 R 11.4 4.0 0:05 top
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> under 1.3.100:
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RES SHRD STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
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> czar 17 0 888 464 296 R 22.3 6.6 0:01 top
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> Look at the SIZE field: for same process it is greater eight times on
> 1.3.100.
> It is not only for top process, bash for example on 1.2.13 has 100+ k,
> and on 1.3.100 it has 1100+ k.
>
> ???
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> Bartlomiej Czardybon
> Silesian Technical University - Faculty of Computer Science
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