Question about ps output. (RSS)

[Russell J Fulton;ccc032u]

Below is a ps -l for some process on out machine (4D/240s Irix 3.3.2)

 F S  UID   PID  PPID  C PRI NI P   SZ:RSS     WCHAN TTY       TIME COMD
30 T 1064 12303 12302  0 +30 39 * 2656:1554          ttyq12   50:53 PSVtrav2
30 S 1064 12302 17214  0 +30 39 *   33:33   8014c6a0 ttyq12    0:00 df11198c
30 T 1057 11749 11748  0 +30 39 *  638:504           ttyq12   88:04 xwave
30 S 1057 11748 17214  0 +30 39 *   33:33   8014c6a0 ttyq12    0:00 df2193cc

all processes have been stopped for over an hour but the RSS still shows that
one is holding a large amount of resident memory. Surely most of the memory
of inactive processes should be swapped out? These are actually batch jobs
that have been stopped when the queue was closed.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks,  Russell.
-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
<rj_fulton at aukuni.ac.nz>