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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
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Cc: Duncan Drury <d.drury@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] PID 0
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On 2005-10-06 09:48, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> "Duncan Drury" <d.drury@gmail.com> writes:
> > I am having a problem with Apache/PHP that results in Apache running
> > as PID 0, which I cannot kill without restarting the server (or
> > rather I don't know how else to do it).
>
> PID 0?  Really?  As in the first column of "ps -ax"?

That sounds strange.  In general, small PID numbers are reserved for
internal kernel threads.  For instance, PID 0 is [swapper].