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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:17:21 +0100
From:      "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com>
To:        "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: number of processes reported by top versus ps
Message-ID:  <14989d6e0702150017y478faaf3o28d92c53e7faa81a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070215022008.I26610@prime.gushi.org>
References:  <20070215022008.I26610@prime.gushi.org>

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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



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