Bug 70793 - RSS is wrong
Summary: RSS is wrong
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: beta4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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: 71473 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 67217
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-05 12:49 UTC by Tim Waugh
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-08-15 11:20:47 UTC
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Description Tim Waugh 2002-08-05 12:49:25 UTC 
Description of Problem: 
When viewing process info, RSS shows meaningless numbers. 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
gnome-system-monitor-2.0.0-2 
 
How Reproducible: 
100% 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
1. Start app. 
2. Click on a process 
3. Look at the RSS 
 
Actual Results: 
(Examples:) 
Total:  34.8 Mb 
RSS:    752 Mb 
Shared: 16.5 Mb 
 
Total:  34.1 Mb 
RSS:    -1946157056 bytes 
Shared: 16.2 Mb
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-05 15:13:03 UTC 
Confirmed.

Upstream is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89927
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-14 01:05:08 UTC 
*** Bug 71473 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2002-08-15 11:20:42 UTC 
This turned out to be a kernel bug.  Fixed in 2.4.18-10.98.
Comment 4 Jay Turner 2002-08-16 04:49:59 UTC 
Fix confirmed with kernel-2.4.18-11.
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