Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:22:59 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: James <admin@oxygenshell.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: init / (idle) CPU USAGE Message-ID: <20031003222259.GC5283@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <06e101c389fb$c759bed0$0301a8c0@jim> References: <06e101c389fb$c759bed0$0301a8c0@jim>
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In the last episode (Oct 03), James said: > 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) You can't kill it. It's a pseudo-process that "runs" when no other processes are runnable. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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