What does "sz" mean in ps?

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 17:54 -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> Sample output
> 
>  
> 
>   PID USER     COMMAND             SZ
> 
>  3594 daemon   /usr/sbin/atd      473
> 
>  3604 dbus     dbus-daemon-1 --   607
> 
> 15475 dhb0114  csh -c /usr/bin/  1282
> 
> 15492 dhb0114  /usr/bin/X11/xte  2785
> 
>  
> 
> What does the ”sz” part mean?

That's roughly the amount of swap space that would be needed if the
process wrote all of its dirty pages out.  It's really noise.  If you
want the "official" man page stuff:

SZ       approximate amount of swap space that would be required if
         the process were to dirty all writable pages and then be
         swapped out. This number is very rough!

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