From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 15:25:53 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 C5DA516A4B3 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:25:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oxygenshell.com (ferrari.oxygenshell.com [69.65.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3152943FFD for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:25:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin@oxygenshell.com) Received: (qmail 14146 invoked by uid 0); 3 Oct 2003 22:26:17 -0000 Received: from h00022a00408a.ne.client2.attbi.com (HELO jim) (24.128.224.75) by noc.r1.oxygenshell.com with SMTP; 3 Oct 2003 22:26:17 -0000 Message-ID: <06ef01c389fd$68a60db0$0301a8c0@jim> From: "James" To: "Dan Nelson" References: <06e101c389fb$c759bed0$0301a8c0@jim> <20031003222259.GC5283@dan.emsphone.com> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:26:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 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 22:25:53 -0000 Ok so in other words the machine is not really using 99% cpu and the process is ok. Hence my loads are 0.00 Thank You, Mr. Thomas Sr. Administrator ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" To: "James" Cc: Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:22 PM Subject: Re: init / (idle) CPU USAGE > 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 >