From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 12:27: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9AD37B539 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA25087; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:57:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:57:40 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Chuck Barnett Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: syncer Message-ID: <20000302125739.A14279@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from cbarnett@netcabtec.com on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 12:28:15PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Chuck Barnett [000302 11:00] wrote: > Hello, I have a question. Does anyone know what syncer is? this is from ps > -aux > > root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DL Wed08AM 0:03.09 (syncer) It's a kernel thread that handles pushing stale data to the disk. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message