From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 15:14:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F76316A4B3 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:14:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oxygenshell.com (ferrari.oxygenshell.com [69.65.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 762F743FB1 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin@oxygenshell.com) Received: (qmail 12366 invoked by uid 0); 3 Oct 2003 22:14:37 -0000 Received: from h00022a00408a.ne.client2.attbi.com (HELO jim) (24.128.224.75) by noc.r1.oxygenshell.com with SMTP; 3 Oct 2003 22:14:37 -0000 Message-ID: <06e101c389fb$c759bed0$0301a8c0@jim> From: "James" To: Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:14:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: init / (idle) CPU USAGE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: James List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 22:14:16 -0000 Hello, I just setup a new machine, And I installed 5.1 on the system. I = have been using and running FreeBSD for over 3/4 years and I have never = seen this problem. The question is if I killed pid #11 would init die? = The process has been using 99% CPU for the past 2 days and wont stop. = What is casuing this idle ghost process and cant it be stoped and can i = kill it without problems. All replys will be appreciated. thanks USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME = COMMAND root 11 99.0 0.0 0 12 ?? RL 9:27AM 509:10.58 = (idle) root 10 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 9:27AM 0:00.00 = (ktrace) root 1 0.0 0.2 740 392 ?? ILs 9:27AM 0:00.06 = /sbin/init -- root 12 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 9:27AM 0:06.47 = (swi1: net) root 13 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 9:27AM 0:16.53 = (swi7: tty:sio clock) root 2 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 9:27AM 0:01.23 = (g_event) root 3 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 9:27AM 0:01.24 = (g_up) root 4 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 9:27AM 0:01.30 = (g_down) root 15 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 9:27AM 0:02.91 = (random) root 5 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL 9:27AM 0:00.00 = (acpi_task0) root 6 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL 9:27AM 0:00.00 = (acpi_task1) root 7 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL 9:27AM 0:00.00 = (acpi_task2) root 23 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 9:27AM 0:00.44 = (irq14: ata0) root 25 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 9:27AM 0:06.89 = (irq10: sis0) root 8 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 9:27AM 0:00.04 = (pagedaemon) root 9 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 9:27AM 0:00.00 = (vmdaemon) root 30 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 9:27AM 0:07.85 = (pagezero) root 31 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 9:27AM 0:00.18 = (bufdaemon) root 32 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 9:27AM 0:02.31 = (syncer) root 33 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL 9:27AM 0:00.17 = (vnlru) root 34 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL 9:27AM 0:00.00 = (nfsiod 0) root 35 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL 9:27AM 0:00.00 = (nfsiod 1) root 36 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL 9:27AM 0:00.00 = (nfsiod 2) root 37 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL 9:27AM 0:00.00 = (nfsiod 3) Thank You, Mr. Thomas Sr. UNIX Administrator