From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 15 08:19:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2696816A407 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:19:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danm@prime.gushi.org) Received: from prime.gushi.org (prime.gushi.org [72.9.101.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF8513C4A7 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:19:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danm@prime.gushi.org) Received: from prime.gushi.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prime.gushi.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1F8JuNr056567 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:19:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from danm@prime.gushi.org) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=simple/simple; d=prime.gushi.org; s=primegushiorg; t=1171527597; bh=WpGRRgiiAG8gDJ7CJhE1+xfjCrE=; h=DomainKey-Signature: Received:Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=BD9XPjK4/tGz8gaZ/3GhVSTRSjhKE1gnmxtwxe O5hwu+3z9PUxlKPOiIuTQ1ngHA8mkwNPNGyXm7141HYEt9DA== DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=primegushiorg; d=prime.gushi.org; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id: references:mime-version:content-type; b=OC+XBTPmf8gaiBut8Foy0mt84fItP+2iMaBLO5ecQRVSeN5j4SK5nNBiAKOZ/Aiwg MkorUcbUPEnBlWBOGcGRA== Received: (from danm@localhost) by prime.gushi.org (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id l1F8JuOA056566; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:19:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from danm) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:19:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" To: Christian Walther In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0702150017y478faaf3o28d92c53e7faa81a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20070215031940.S65264@prime.gushi.org> References: <20070215022008.I26610@prime.gushi.org> <14989d6e0702150017y478faaf3o28d92c53e7faa81a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: number of processes reported by top versus ps X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:19:58 -0000 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 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 ---------------------------