Decipher ps -v Output

[Matthew Carpenter]

And if I'm not mistaken, that means text as in "program code," not 
variables...  Of course, this is also intuitive for the casual hacker.

On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:53 pm, Brad De Vries wrote:
> 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.
>
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