From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 21:19:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1A216A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:19:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ABFF43D39 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:19:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robg.list@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a36so362670rnf for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:19:27 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bl1RfOvY5FMO6qRGeWVbnqDb1pB8Ka3xmcl5P15CYnfMssOZBat5Vw9InBQhqErLrAQkG7yDs37mmlcrPnwxHoWb9TD8ov/rrjtNvsYm1FW7LR4FnOC+sbeEoqF3x9dU89D+BCdAdNprJLjDhhXplrwFTooxhnfK/p75Rt9e7lQ= Received: by 10.38.78.13 with SMTP id a13mr1092143rnb; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:19:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.83.18 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:19:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5c389d3b0411111319548b2cc0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:19:27 -0500 From: robg To: f-questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: What are all these processes in `ps -aux`? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: robg List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:19:28 -0000 Hi, I have FreeBSD 5.3 running on a remote machine and when doing `ps -aux` I see: root 13 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq1: atkbd0] root 14 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq3: sio1] root 15 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq4: sio0] root 16 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq5:] root 17 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq6:] root 18 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq7:] root 19 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq8: rtc] root 20 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq9: acpi0] root 21 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq10:] root 22 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq11:] root 23 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq12:] root 24 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq13:] root 25 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.02 [irq14: ata0] root 26 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq15: ata1] root 27 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq16: uhci0 uhci3] root 28 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq17:] root 29 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq18: uhci2+] root 30 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq19: uhci1] root 31 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq20:] root 32 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq21:] root 33 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq22:] root 34 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.11 [irq23: rl0] root 35 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq0: clk] root 36 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:02.36 [swi5: clock sio] root 37 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [swi4: vm] root 38 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.05 [swi1: net] root 39 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.05 [yarrow] root 40 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [swi6: task queue] root 41 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [swi6:+] root 42 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [swi6: acpitaskq] root 43 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [swi6:+] root 44 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [swi2: camnet] root 45 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [swi3: cambio] root 46 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.09 [acpi_thermal] root 47 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [usb0] root 48 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [usbtask] root 49 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [usb1] root 50 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [usb2] root 51 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [usb3] root 52 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [swi0: sio] root 53 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [pagedaemon] root 54 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [vmdaemon] root 55 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.40 [pagezero] root 56 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [bufdaemon] root 57 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.01 [syncer] root 58 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [vnlru] root 59 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [hpt_wt] root 60 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [nfsiod 0] root 61 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [nfsiod 1] root 62 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [nfsiod 2] root 63 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [nfsiod 3] root 64 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 4:06PM 0:00.02 [schedcpu] What are all of these? This is a fresh install and I didn't see all of those in 5.2.1.. Is there a way to clean them up or are they vital to the system? Thanks. -- robg robg.list@gmail.com