Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:43:59 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: robg <robg.list@gmail.com> Cc: f-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What are all these processes in `ps -aux`? Message-ID: <20041111214359.GF4702@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <5c389d3b0411111319548b2cc0@mail.gmail.com> References: <5c389d3b0411111319548b2cc0@mail.gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Nov 11), robg said: > 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] Those are all kernel threads; they aren't really processes. You can tell the difference because kernel threads have a VSZ of 0. > 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? It may be that ps in 5.3 displays these by default, where 5.2 might not have. They were definitely there :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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