Decipher ps -v Output

[Brad De Vries]

On 5/4/05, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> Okay, boys and girls,
> 
> If I say "ps v", I get the memory usage of the processes I own that
> are owned by some TTY:
> 
>   PID TTY      STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS  RSS %MEM COMMAND
> 11458 pts/1    Ss     0:00      6   577  4274 1400  0.2 /bin/bash
> 11478 pts/1    S      1:59     22   483 16944 7028  1.3 jpilot
> 12002 pts/2    Ss     0:00      2   577  5374 1480  0.2 /bin/bash
> 14700 pts/1    S+     0:00      3    96  3075  588  0.1 less ps.txt
> 14767 pts/2    R+     0:00      0    60  2943  624  0.1 ps v
> 
> What is "TRS"? I'm guessing t<mumble> resident size, but that's only
> a guess. The man page I have (from the procps-3.2.2 package) isn't
> terribly helpful.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kurt

According to http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=p/ps
it says that it's "Size of resident text" which is intuitively obvious
to the most casual observer.  :-)

Brad.