From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 15:23:06 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 AE55616A4B3 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E912643FB1 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h93MMxOI081043; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:22:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:22:59 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: James Message-ID: <20031003222259.GC5283@dan.emsphone.com> References: <06e101c389fb$c759bed0$0301a8c0@jim> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <06e101c389fb$c759bed0$0301a8c0@jim> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: init / (idle) CPU USAGE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 22:23:06 -0000 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