RSS goes negative

Nate Eldredge (nate@cartsys.com)
Sat, 03 Apr 1999 15:06:29 -0800

Here's a strange situation. I've been running another app that uses a
lot of swap, and now I notice the RSS for xdos, as reported by
/proc/XX/status, has gone into the negative range.

Name: xdos
State: S (sleeping)
Pid: 1239
PPid: 203
Uid: 0 1004 1004 1004
Gid: 100 100 100 100
Groups: 100 5 6 11 101 102 103 107 110
VmSize: 9468 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS: 4294962100 kB
VmData: 4328 kB
VmStk: 24 kB
VmExe: 792 kB
VmLib: 2028 kB
SigPnd: 0000000000002000
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 0000000008000000
SigCgt: 00000000100064df
CapInh: 00000000fffffeff
CapPrm: 00000000fffffeff
CapEff: 0000000000000000

I presume this is not good.

If there's some more investigating I should do, please let me know by
e-mail ASAP. I can't keep this thing running indefinitely, and I don't
know if it'll be reproducible.

TIA

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Nate Eldredge
nate@cartsys.com


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