top command ram problem displaying negative value for process
 

I dont have a clue why this is happening?
Does anyone knows?

Look at the sshd and sendmail.

14:34:21 up 127 days, 20:07, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.74, 1.01
32 processes: 30 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.9% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 99.0% idle
Mem: 29092k av, 28348k used, 744k free, 0k shrd, 4608k buff
4856k actv, 248k in_d, 412k in_c
Swap: 193528k av, 3672k used, 189856k free 816k cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
26481 root 15 0 692 664 412 R 0.9 2.2 0:39 0 top d 1 c
1 root 15 0 468 440 416 S 0.0 1.5 0:31 0 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:03 0 keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 kapmd
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd_CPU0
9 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 bdflush
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 75:58 0 kswapd
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:07 0 kscand/DMA
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 kscand/Normal
8 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kscand/HighMem
10 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 kupdated
11 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mdrecoveryd
15 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 2:10 0 kjournald
73 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khubd
1180 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kjournald
1487 root 15 0 576 532 496 S 0.0 1.8 1:01 0 syslogd -m 0
1491 root 15 0 404 356 352 S 0.0 1.2 0:00 0 klogd -x
1584 root 15 0 -4596 -5M -4840 S 0.0 -19.9 47:21 0 /usr/sbin/sshd
1602 ntp 15 0 2384 2384 2152 S 0.0 8.1 0:16 0 ntpd
1611 root 15 0 -12 -132 -84 S 0.0 -0.4 0:57 0 crond
1633 daemon 15 0 480 464 424 S 0.0 1.5 0:29 0 atd
1641 root 16 0 220 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 login
1642 root 22 0 48 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
/sbin/mingetty tty2
1643 root 22 0 44 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
/sbin/mingetty tty3
1644 root 22 0 44 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
/sbin/mingetty tty4
1645 root 22 0 44 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
/sbin/mingetty tty5
1646 root 22 0 44 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
/sbin/mingetty tty6
1648 teste 15 0 320 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 -bash
14529 root 15 0 860 300 212 S 0.0 1.0 4:07 0 sendmail
14538 smmsp 15 0 476 -128 -56 SW 0.0 -0.4 0:07 0 sendmail
7923 root 15 0 324 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 -bash

Hi,

And welcome to LQ!

And now:

Platform?
Distro?
Version of top?
What does ps say about the RAM usage?


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