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From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
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Subject: number of processes reported by top versus ps
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Hey all,

I'm getting about a hundred more processes reported by ps aux|wc -l versus 
the total number of processes in top.  Is this a "normal" thing?  My 
system's been under some heavy load in the past couple days, but it's all 
presumably stable now.

-Dan

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