From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 21 17:49:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9779E37B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:49:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-146.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9509743E6E for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:49:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1401B66E3A; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:49:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 837F01210; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:49:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:49:05 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dhee Reddy Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird 'ps aux' output in DP2 Message-ID: <20021122014905.GA21639@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <877kf675b2.fsf@myrealbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877kf675b2.fsf@myrealbox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --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