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From: "Faried Nawaz" <fn@uidaho.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ps weirdness
Date: 10 Dec 1995 03:50:18 -0800
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In article <4a9066$1tqk@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt) writes:

$ - Why are all TIME fields 0:00.00? (top(1), however, reports TIME > 0)
$ - Why is the output not sorted by PID although ps(1) says it should be?
$ - Why are all processes in parentheses? Where are the invocation options?
$ - I read the notes in the handbook about ps not working with new kernels
$   but shouldn't it work with the generic kernel from the same release?
$ - What did I screw up?

do you have procfs mounted?