M-SUBHARMONIC FUNCTIONSMWe describe growth and decrease of pth means, 1 < p < 2n−1 2(n−1) , of nonpositive M-subharmonic functions in the unit ball in C n in terms of smoothness properties of a measure. As consequence we obtain a haracterization of asumptotic behaviour for means of Poisson integrals in the unit ball defined by a positive measure.1. Introduction and main result. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the growth and decrease of pth means of subharmonic function, in terms of smoothness properties of the Riesz measure µ. For one-dimensional case this interplay was studied in [4] and it is based on a concept of the complete measure in the sense of Grishin (see [6,3]) or related measure.For n ∈ N, let C n denote the n-dimensional complex space with the inner productLet B denote the unit ball {z ∈ C n : |z| < 1} and S = {z ∈ C n : |z| = 1} denote the unit sphere.For z, w ∈ B, define the involutive automorphism φ w of the unit ball B given bywhere P 0 z = 0, P w z = ⟨z,w⟩ |w| 2 w, w ̸ = 0, is the orthogonal projection of C n onto the subspace generated by w and Q w = I − P w ([8, 9]).An upper semicontinuous function u :for all a ∈ B and all r sufficiently small, where dσ is the Lebesgue measure on S normalized so that σ(S) = 1. A continuous function u for which equality holds in (1) is said to be M-harmonic on B.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 31B25, 31C05.