'ps aux' odditiy

Kyle Mott kyle at xraided.net
Tue Jun 8 22:51:45 GMT 2004


I just finished doing a buildworld in multi-user mode (which seemed to
work OK... though only time will tell :D) to RELENG_4. However, when I
run 'ps aux', the output seems to be inverted... IE processes with lower
PID's are on the bottom. Is this normal? Here's an example:
 
 
USER     PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
root   33444 77.7  3.5 13640 13512  p0  R+    3:42PM   0:02.73
/usr/libexec/cc1plus -quiet -dumpbase opt_range.cc -march=pentiumpro 
root   33443  4.2  0.4  1696 1540  p0  S+    3:42PM   0:00.13
/usr/libexec/cpp0 -lang-c++ -I. -I. -I.. -I../bdb/build_unix -I../inn
root   33442  0.0  0.1   308  200  p0  S+    3:42PM   0:00.01 cc
-DMYSQL_SERVER -DDEFAULT_MYSQL_HOME="/usr/local" -DDATADIR="/var/d
root   33440  0.0  0.1   664  476  p0  S+    3:42PM   0:00.01 /bin/sh
../depcomp cc -DMYSQL_SERVER -DDEFAULT_MYSQL_HOME="/usr/local
root   33438  0.0  0.1   636  448  p0  S+    3:42PM   0:00.00 /bin/sh
-ec source='opt_range.cc' object='opt_range.o' libtool=no  de
nagios 33431  0.0  0.1   460  244  ??  S     3:42PM   0:00.00 /sbin/ping
-n -c 5 192.168.30.1
nagios 33430  0.0  0.2   996  704  ??  S     3:42PM   0:00.01
/usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H 192.168.30.1 -w 100.0,20% -c 
nagios 33429  0.0  0.1   632  440  ??  S     3:42PM   0:00.00 sh -c
/usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H 192.168.30.1 -w 100.0,2
nagios 33428  0.0  0.4  2408 1636  ??  S     3:42PM   0:00.00
/usr/local/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
[.. Taken out for the sake of brevity ..]
daemon    92  0.0  0.2   960  628  ??  Is    3:07PM   0:00.00
/usr/sbin/portmap
root      91  0.0  0.3  1388 1024  ??  S     3:07PM   0:00.02
/usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid
root      89  0.0  0.3  1336  972  ??  Ss    3:07PM   0:00.17
/usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid
root      85  0.0  0.2   992  684  ??  Ss    3:07PM   0:00.09
/usr/sbin/syslogd -ss -m 0 -f /etc/syslog.conf
root      27  0.0  0.0   212   96  ??  Is    8:07AM   0:00.00 adjkerntz
-i
root       9  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  DL    8:07AM   0:00.02  (vnlru)
root       8  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  DL    8:07AM   0:01.42  (syncer)
root       7  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  DL    8:07AM   0:00.43
(bufdaemon)
root       6  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  DL    8:07AM   0:00.00
(vmdaemon)
root       5  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  DL    8:07AM   0:00.01
(pagedaemon)
root       4  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  DL    8:07AM   0:00.00  (usbtask)
root       3  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  DL    8:07AM   0:00.24  (usb0)
root       2  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  DL    8:07AM   0:00.00
(taskqueue)
root       1  0.0  0.1   556  336  ??  SLs   8:07AM   0:00.20 /sbin/init
--
root   33450  0.0  0.1   516  248  p1  R+    3:42PM   0:00.00 ps aux
root       0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  DLs   8:07AM   0:00.00  (swapper)
root   33445  0.0  0.2   956  704  p0  S+    3:42PM   0:00.00
/usr/libexec/elf/as -o opt_range.o -
root at smith:~#
 
 
 Did I break something? (Again!?)
 
 
-Kyle Mott
 
 
 
 
 


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