ps output: rss vs vmsize

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Jul 24 09:10:41 UTC 2006


the current ps utility claims to output vmsize (procps/ps.c:ps_main() does a 
printf with VmSize in the header) but in reality it displays rss 
(libbb/procps.c:procps_scan() reads in the rss value and the variable name 
is "rss")

so the question is, which do we want ?  vmsize or rss ?  i'd be a bit biased 
and say change the code to read vmsize because in nommu ports for uClinux, 
the rss field is broken (always 0)
-mike
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