Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:47:29 -0800 (PST) From: Marian Cerny <cerny@spnv.sk> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/34155: mistake in Handbook Section 3.5 Processes Message-ID: <200201220847.g0M8lTB78809@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 34155
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: mistake in Handbook Section 3.5 Processes
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Jan 22 00:50:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Marian Cerny
>Release: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE
>Organization:
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>Environment:
FreeBSD ivetka 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Sep 18 11:57:08 PDT 2001
murray@builder.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
>Description:
In Handbook, Section 3.5 - Processes:
> As you can see in this example, the output from [12]ps(1) is organized
> in to a number of columns. PID is the process ID discussed earlier.
> PIDs are assigned starting from 1, go up to 65536, and wrap around
^^^^^
> back to the beginning when you run out. TT shows the tty the program
> is running on, and can safely be ignored for the moment. STAT shows
This is confusing. In the example above (output from ps) is
"72210 p0 R+ 0:00.00 ps",
^^^^^
and in the example below (outpout from top) is
"last pid: 72257; load averages: 0.13, 0.09, 0.03 up 0+13:38:33 22:39:10"
^^^^^
So after a while of investigation I found out that on my computer there
also are processes with PID higher than 65536. The highest value I have
seen was 99651. After a while, new processes got numbers around 500.
So I think that "65536" should be changed to "99999", if 99999 is the
right value.
>How-To-Repeat:
Have a look at Hanbook Section 3.5, then look for "65536".
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
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