Decipher ps -v Output

[Kurt Wall]

On Thursday 05 May 2005 14:53, Brad De Vries enlightened us thusly:
> 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

...

> > 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.
>
> 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.  :-)

That must've been the problem. I wasn't casually observing. I'll have 
to be better about that in the future. Thanks, Brad. I'll take some
comfort knowing I wasn't far off.

Kurt