dwc@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Malaclypse the Elder) (11/09/89)
the size (SZ) field reported under 'ps' says different things on different systems. under the swap-based systems, it was the size of the process image at startup. and the manual says that the units are 'clicks'. when demand paging came in, different implementations interpret 'size' differently. on the system v release 3 that came out of at&t, this was the initial VIRTUAL size of the process, not the INCORE size. so i guess that what i'm saying is that if the 386 versions are ports of system v, then there is sharing of text and don't use 'ps' to see if there is. you can look at process accounting for an indication though (process accounting does your normal space-time measurement of the incore image). danny chen att!hocus!dwc