[freebsd-questions] PID 0

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-10-06 09:48, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> "Duncan Drury" <d.drury at gmail.com> writes:
> > I am having a problem with Apache/PHP that results in Apache running
> > as PID 0, which I cannot kill without restarting the server (or
> > rather I don't know how else to do it).
>
> PID 0?  Really?  As in the first column of "ps -ax"?

That sounds strange.  In general, small PID numbers are reserved for
internal kernel threads.  For instance, PID 0 is [swapper].