Idle process taking up 500 megs of memory?

From: Leo Schmidt <leo_at_NIC.MSUS.EDU>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:59:25 -0600 (CST)

Greetings everyone.


Problem:

doing a 'ps -auxww' and grepping for 'idle', I get:


USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY S COMMAND
root 0 0.0 4.0 524M 20M ?? R < [kernel idle]

The man page for "ps" states that "VSZ" is "Process virtual address
size". So is that really 524 Meg that it has allocated? The %mem is
listed as 4.0, but 4% of 1 gig (real+swap) is close to 40 megs, not
524 megs.

 
Hardware/OS specs:
We have an AlphaServer 2100 4/275 with one processor,
512MB RAM, 512MB swap (deferred mode swapping).

We're running on DU 4.0B.

`uname -a` says:
OSF1 bigtest.mankato.msus.edu V4.0 564 alpha


Thanks for any information you can provide.


Leo Schmidt
leo_at_nic.msus.edu
leo.schmidt_at_mankato.msus.edu
Mankato State University
Mankato, MN USA
Received on Tue Mar 24 1998 - 22:01:07 NZST

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