ps command

From: Peter Stern <peter_at_wiscpa.weizmann.ac.il>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 10:01:44 +0300 (IDT)

There seem to be two different ps commands, namely /usr/bin/ps and
/sbin/ps. I have a job running for which /usr/bin/ps gives:
 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS
peter 6848 93.0 56.2 119M 71M

while /sbin/ps gives:
 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS
peter 6848 93.0 5629 119M 689

which is obviously in error. I am running DU 3.2C. Has anybody seen
this before or know why there are two different ps commands and why
/sbin/ps gives the wrong value for the real memory resident size of
this particular process? For most cases the output of the two commands
is identical.

Peter Stern
Chemical Physics Department
Weizmann Institute of Science
76100 Rehovot, ISRAEL
Received on Wed Jul 31 1996 - 09:25:57 NZST

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