Hi there,

I have a small question:

If I look into the "/proc/<xserver pid>/status" file, there is a VmLck with a
4TeraByte number.

Is that normal?

# cat /proc/7850/status 
Name:   X
State:  S (sleeping)
SleepAVG:       101%
Tgid:   7850
Pid:    7850
PPid:   7848
TracerPid:      0
Uid:    0       0       0       0
Gid:    0       0       0       0
FDSize: 256
Groups: 0 
VmSize:   377396 kB
VmLck:  4294967292 kB
VmRSS:     65724 kB
VmData:   101456 kB
VmStk:       320 kB
VmExe:      1604 kB
VmLib:      6844 kB
Threads:        1
SigPnd: 0000000000000000
ShdPnd: 0000000000000000
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 8000000000301000
SigCgt: 00000000518066cb
CapInh: 0000000000000000
CapPrm: 00000000fffffeff
CapEff: 00000000fffffeff


Most other processes have 0kb.

cat /proc/*/status  | grep VmLck

...
VmLck:         0 kB
VmLck:         0 kB
VmLck:      2060 kB
VmLck:         0 kB
VmLck:         0 kB
VmLck:         4 kB
VmLck:         0 kB
...

Regards,
Martin


ps.:

I'm using the nvidia driver.
# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version 
NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module  1.0-4496  Wed Jul 16
19:03:09 PDT 2003 GCC version:  gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4
3.2.3-r2, propolice)

# cat /proc/version 
Linux version 2.6.0-test11 (root@phoebee) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo
Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r2, propolice)) #6 Thu Nov 27 13:02:23 CET 2003

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Martin Zwickel <martin.zwickel@technotrend.de>
Research & Development

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