On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote about, Re: Detecting Zombies running on the
system?:
> At 05:13 PM 1/19/00 +0000, Richard Adams wrote::
> >> Is there anyways to detect any Zombie processes running on the system? Is
> >> there a way to grep for em in the `ps aux` output?
> >
> >One word tells all;
> >
> >top
>
>
> Actually, quite a bit less than "all". In particular, top doesn't report the
> true amount of available RAM, that is, the amount available including cache
> and buffers. Its reporting is equivalent to only the first of the two lines
> that "free" reports. Those numbers are VERY misleading, especially on a
> system that goeas a long time between reboots.
>
I dont quite understand why you say this, top gets its info from the same
file as free itself which is /proc/meminfo, now i belive top shows memory
in the same way as free -o.
The buffers line is not shown, but then that information is given per
program in tops output.
As to the output being different, i dont see your point, if what you say is
true, then you must be saying /proc/meminfo does not work properly after x
days of uptime.
>
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