On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:11:19PM +0200, Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it wrote:

 > the same also for other kernel related processes which gets 10% of memory
 > each. I had not notices this behaviour on NetBSD-1.5.x
 > 
 > dijkstra: {19} ps -auwx | sort +4 | less
 > root      2  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  0:00.00 [scsibus0]
 > root      3  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  0:00.67 [pagedaemon]
 > root      6  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  0:00.81 [aiodoned]
 > root      4  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  0:02.32 [reaper]
 > root      5  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  1:15.71 [ioflush]
 > root      0  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DKs   1:50PM  0:00.15 [swapper]
 > 
 > is all this normal?
 > thanks

Note... They each look like they consume 10% of memory .. but in fact
all of the "kernel processes" (like the ones listed here) share the
same address space (the kernel address space), and thus it is only a
single 10%.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>