Re: memory usage script

From: Jan-Frode Myklebust (janfrode@PARALLAB.UIB.NO)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 10:27:15 EDT


On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:42:05AM -0500, Bill Verzal wrote:
> ps auxwww
>
> Look at the RSS columns and CPU column.

This doesn't seem to be reliable.

# ps auxwww 56978
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TTY STAT STIME TIME COMMAND
XXXX 56978 3.1 1424.0 3686964 825766076 - A Aug 02 5956:17 /usr/local/chem/gauss/g98A11/g98/l1002.exe 445644800 ....

Very often gaussian jobs wil show memory usage
far above available memory+ps. Anybody have an
explanation for this?

   -jf



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