What are all these processes in `ps -aux`?
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Nov 11 21:44:02 GMT 2004
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 :)
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Dan Nelson
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