Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:49:05 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dhee Reddy <dhee@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird 'ps aux' output in DP2 Message-ID: <20021122014905.GA21639@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <877kf675b2.fsf@myrealbox.com> References: <877kf675b2.fsf@myrealbox.com>
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--WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:37:37PM -0500, Dhee Reddy wrote: > Hello all. > When I run 'ps aux' I can see STARTED field having dates as 31Dec69 f= or > some processes. the (idle) process's TIME field also seems strange to= me.=20 > The output is pasted below.=20 Kernel processes and threads appear to have a start time of 0 (i.e. the epoch). This should probably be set to the system boot time instead. The idle thread accrues run-time when your system is idle (i.e. as it runs :), so providing your machine has been up for at least 1301 minutes there's no problem there. Kris --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93Y0QWry0BWjoQKURAimwAJ4hlnXGErJ+rllRhQn0lQHNMcIKSQCg/vbF GWSzXWMgnsGyLTyScjpBnc0= =R2RT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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