Strange process

[Dan Nelson]

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