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From: jhroyer@joher.com
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: ps displays 4x-5x more memory usage (vsz) on any process from 2.2.x to 3.0.0
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>Number:         9110
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       ps displays 4x-5x more memory usage (vsz) on any process from 2.2.x to 3.0.0
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 16 20:40:01 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Sat Dec 19 23:55:45 GMT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Sat Dec 19 15:57:07 PST 1998
>Originator:     Jean-Hugues ROYER
>Release:        3.0.0 release / 2.2.8 stable
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
When checking the memory usage of a process like getty or telnetd or
else using ps (or top) it shows that the same process under 3.0.0
use 4-5 times more memory than the same one on 2.2.x
>How-To-Repeat:
ps aux | fgrep getty

on a 2.2.x and on a 2.3.0

(getty is an example check with any other one)
>Fix:
ps problem ?
kernel problem ?
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To: jhroyer@joher.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/9110: ps displays 4x-5x more memory usage (vsz) on any process from 2.2.x to 3.0.0 
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:11:57 -0800

 >When checking the memory usage of a process like getty or telnetd or
 >else using ps (or top) it shows that the same process under 3.0.0
 >use 4-5 times more memory than the same one on 2.2.x
 
    VSZ is accurate in 3.x and not accurate in 2.2.x. This PR can be closed.
 
 -DG
 
 David Greenman
 Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: steve
State-Changed-When: Sat Dec 19 23:55:45 GMT 1998
State-Changed-Why: 
In accordance with David's instruction (and not having heard any complaints
from the originator), I'm going to close this one.
>Unformatted:
