WORKING_SET.COM gives all COM states when run at high priority

From: AEF (spamsink2001_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: 29 Jun 2005 16:33:01 -0700

Hello,

WORKING_SET.COM, which is in SYS$EXAMPLES, lists all processes and
various working set statistics for each. I recently found out that when
you run it at high priority, most or all of the states show up as COM.
The state is determined by the function

    f$getjpi("","STATE")

The higher the priority, the higher the percentage of states which are
reported as COM.

Why should the result of this function be dependent on the priority at
which it is run?

(Tested on VMS v6.1 and v6.2, both on VAX systems.)

(On some systems it may be called WORKSET.COM.)

Thanks.

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