I have a process using about 11g as reported by ps: 
  PID USER        SZ       RSS      COMMAND
 6548 someuser    12339104 12210376 someprocess
But when I use Proc::ProcessTable::Process it returns a big negative number for rss. 
          bless( {
                   'cmajflt' => 0,
                   'cminflt' => 18193,
                   'cmndline' => '/tools/atoptech/AP_09.02.rel.5.1/Lin
+ux/bin/rhel4-64/AP -4 -batch scripts/apPNR/droute_opt.scr -wait -tmp_
+dir APTempDir/droute_opt.tmp -adc_dir APTempDir/droute_opt.adc -cmd_l
+og APTempDir/droute_opt.cmd.log -log logs/apPNR/droute_opt.log ',
                   'cstime' => '120000',
                   'ctime' => '320000',
                   'cutime' => '200000',
                   'cwd' => undef,
                   'egid' => 20,
                   'euid' => 9331,
                   'exec' => undef,
                   'fgid' => 20,
                   'flags' => 0,
                   'fname' => 'AP',
                   'fuid' => 9331,
                   'gid' => 20,
                   'majflt' => 12,
                   'minflt' => 3062104,
                   'pctcpu' => '135.55',
                   'pctmem' => '344.00',
                   'pgrp' => 4725,
                   'pid' => 6548,
                   'ppid' => 6541,
                   'priority' => 0,
                   'rss' => -381493248,
                   'sess' => 3879,
                   'sgid' => 20,
                   'size' => 4102443008,
                   'start' => '1260511632',
                   'state' => 'run',
                   'stime' => '547210000',
                   'suid' => 9331,
                   'time' => '53885980000',
                   'ttydev' => '',
                   'ttynum' => 0,
                   'uid' => 9331,
                   'utime' => '53338770000',
                   'wchan' => -1
                 }, 'Proc::ProcessTable::Process' ),

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Is this a bug, or some kind of overflow? I'm going to look at the Process code and try to figure it out, but thought I'd ask here as well. Thanks, Jim

In reply to Proc::ProcessTable::Process returning negative rss? by jimsearle

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