What are all these processes in `ps -aux`?
robg
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Thu Nov 11 21:19:28 GMT 2004
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.
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