Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:17:59 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Processes in parentheses? Message-ID: <19990510121759.W22791@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990509214106.A547@drwho.xnet.com>; from Michael Maxwell on Sun, May 09, 1999 at 09:41:06PM -0500 References: <19990509214106.A547@drwho.xnet.com>
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On Sunday, 9 May 1999 at 21:41:06 -0500, Michael Maxwell wrote:
> I have another wierd question. After having done a make world, when I
> run "w", "ps", etc... all processes shown are in parentheses. Why is this?
>
> Example:
>
>> ps
> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> 425 p1 Ss 0:00.00 (tcsh)
> 556 p1 R+ 0:00.00 (ps)
>> ps aux
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
> sysadmin 586 0.0 0.2 412 240 p1 R+ - 0:00.00 (ps)
> root 1 0.0 0.2 496 244 ?? Is - 0:00.00 (init)
> root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DL - 0:00.00 (pagedaemon)
> root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DL - 0:00.00 (vmdaemon)
Two possibilties:
1. They're swapped out. This is the usual reason.
2. Your ps(1) doesn't match your kernel. I think this is what you're
seeing here, since your ps itself is shown like that, and you're
missing things like CPU time. I'd guess you've upgraded your
kernel or your userland, and not the other.
Greg
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