Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:26:36 -0400 From: "James" <admin@oxygenshell.com> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: init / (idle) CPU USAGE Message-ID: <06ef01c389fd$68a60db0$0301a8c0@jim> References: <06e101c389fb$c759bed0$0301a8c0@jim> <20031003222259.GC5283@dan.emsphone.com>
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Ok so in other words the machine is not really using 99% cpu and the process is ok. Hence my loads are 0.00 Thank You, Mr. Thomas Sr. Administrator ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "James" <admin@oxygenshell.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:22 PM Subject: Re: init / (idle) CPU USAGE > In the last episode (Oct 03), James said: > > I just setup a new machine, And I installed 5.1 on the system. I > > have been using and running FreeBSD for over 3/4 years and I have > > never seen this problem. The question is if I killed pid #11 > > would init die? The process has been using 99% CPU for the past 2 > > days and wont stop. What is casuing this idle ghost process and > > cant it be stoped and can i kill it without problems. All replys > > will be appreciated. thanks > > > > > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > > root 11 99.0 0.0 0 12 ?? RL 9:27AM 509:10.58 (idle) > > You can't kill it. It's a pseudo-process that "runs" when no other > processes are runnable. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com >
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