I would love it if someone else using Itanium would tell me if they do/don't see this.
My guess is similar to Tony's. The child process does disappear after the execute. Here's a snippet from where I monitored one of my problem processes (pid 5783) by looping 1x/sec: "date; ps -flu cds33896|grep -v pts/| grep -e 5783" You can see the child caught at various stages of execution. Notice that the SZ column for the parent grows. Notice that the parent's memory is duplicated(?) for the child. I edited out a few columns to make it easy to read in an email: F S UID PID PPID SZ STIME TIME COMD Sun Mar 16 22:18:37 EDT 2008 401 S cds33896 5783 1 253057 Mar 15 688:35 phantom RUN BP MF 401 R cds33896 26712 5783 251568 22:18:37 0:00 phantom RUN BP MF Sun Mar 16 22:18:38 EDT 2008 401 S cds33896 5783 1 253057 Mar 15 688:35 phantom RUN BP MF 401 R cds33896 26990 5783 116 22:18:38 0:00 SH -c # comment Sun Mar 16 22:18:40 EDT 2008 401 R cds33896 5783 1 253061 Mar 15 688:36 phantom RUN BP MF Sun Mar 16 22:18:41 EDT 2008 401 S cds33896 5783 1 253061 Mar 15 688:36 phantom RUN BP MF 401 R cds33896 27484 5783 251572 22:18:41 0:00 phantom RUN BP MF ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/