Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:19:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> To: Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: number of processes reported by top versus ps Message-ID: <20070215031940.S65264@prime.gushi.org> In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0702150017y478faaf3o28d92c53e7faa81a@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070215022008.I26610@prime.gushi.org> <14989d6e0702150017y478faaf3o28d92c53e7faa81a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Christian Walther wrote: Aah, that's right, threads. Forgot about those. -Dan > On 15/02/07, Dan Mahoney, System Admin <danm@prime.gushi.org> wrote: >> 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. > > ps -aux and top hide different processes by default. Use top -S to > show all system processes, too. This is the same as doing a ps -auxH > > Read the manpages of both commands for more information of what all > these options do. > >> >> -Dan >> > > HTH > Christian > -- "It doesn't matter where I live, because I live in dataspace. That's my hometown." -Steve Roberts, Builder of BEHEMOTH --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------
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