Strange process
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Feb 15 15:18:19 PST 2006
In the last episode (Feb 15), Kris Kennaway said:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:34:32PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Feb 15), Kris Kennaway said:
> > > I often see this too. For example:
> > >
> > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
> > > 5357 kkenn 1 96 0 0K 0K START 0:00 0.35% xpdf
> > >
> > > > ps -waux | grep xpdf
> > > kkenn 5357 0.3 0.0 0 0 ?? RE Sun08PM 0:00.20 [xpdf]
> > >
> > > > ps lp 5357
> > > UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS MWCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND
> >
> > That syntax should have worked... Try a plain "px axl | grep xpdf"
> > instead.
>
> You're not mistaken, it's just not there.
>
> > ps axl | grep xpdf
> 1000 5357 78788 2 96 0 0 0 - RE ?? 0:00.20 [xpdf]
A wchan of "-" doesn't look good; I have no idea what that process
might be doing. You know what? I have some of these processes on my
system too :)
0 14033 395 591 96 0 0 0 - RE ?? 0:00.00 [sh]
0 33631 395 591 96 0 0 0 - RE ?? 0:00.00 [sh]
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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