size of df (was: Re: malloc: not enough core)

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In article <1868 at blake.acs.washington.edu> mtsu at blake.acs.washington.edu (Montana State) writes:

| This  is a good point, but what I would like to know is why df needs so much
| core to run in.  While df is blowing up with not enough core, ps, top, and
| lisp can all fire up and run.  I did a ps on a df that was stuck waiting
| for an NFS server, and it showed an size of 1034K of memory.  What does
| it need all of this space for??

1034K ?   That's over a megabyte to you and me!  Mine is much smaller:

  PID TT STAT  TIME SL RE PAGEIN SIZE  RSS  LIM TSIZ TRS %CPU %MEM COMMAND
29893 71 D N   0:00  0  1      3   32    3   xx   10   3 20.5  0.4 df

Let me guess: ps, top and lisp don't deal with NFS, right?  While df
does because you have a bunch of filesystems mounted using NFS.

Anything NFS touches swells up without bound.   (NFS = Not Finitely Sized)

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