Re: /proc/<pid>/status

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 14 May 1996 20:29:10 +0100 (BST)


On Tue, 14 May 1996, Bartlomiej Czardybon wrote:

> Thanks for info about it.
> But I still DONT understand why SIZE fields in first and second ps differ
> so much.
>

Erm, eek, no idea, I think it's something to do with the MM system. I
seem to rember something about this some time ago (mid 1.3.50ies I
think, it was incorrect process size), but then it could be unconnected.
You could check if it's been compiled with -g, and wether it's been
striped or not (file /bin/bash to see about the striped or not).

> Bartlomiej Czardybon
> Silesian Technical University - Faculty of Computer Science
>
Bryn

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