Subject: Re: ps axl shows bogus data
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/25/1999 14:11:49
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:15:10 +1000
Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org> wrote:
> > Wasn't this fixed some time ago? If not, will it be for 1.4? It
> > looks pretty bad...
> >
> > UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND
> > 0 0 0 0 -18 0 0 -20320 schedu DLs ?? 0:00.01 (swapper)
> > 0 1 0 0 10 0 320 184 wait Is ?? 0:00.02 init
> > 0 2 0 0 -18 0 0 -20320 daemon DL ?? 0:00.01 (pagedaemon)
> > 0 3 0 0 -18 0 0 -20320 reaper DL ?? 0:00.08 (reaper)
> > 0 10 0 0 -6 0 0 -20320 raidfr DL ?? 0:00.03 (raid)
> > 0 11 0 0 -6 0 0 -20320 raidfr DL ?? 0:05.14 (raid)
>
> What arch is this on? I had some patches somewhere to just check if
> RSS was less than zero - maybe something like this is needed on the
> 1.4 branch...
Um, we should fix the bug in the pmap module that causes this.
I can whip up an example for the Alpha port on Monday (maybe tonight,
but I can't guarantee anything; I'm making dinner for some friends tonight :-)
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>