From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 21:44:02 2004 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 BC6DD16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:44:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6894B43D1F for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:44:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iABLhxe8090330; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:43:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:43:59 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: robg Message-ID: <20041111214359.GF4702@dan.emsphone.com> References: <5c389d3b0411111319548b2cc0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5c389d3b0411111319548b2cc0@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: f-questions Subject: Re: What are all these processes in `ps -aux`? 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: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:44:02 -0000 In the last episode (Nov 11), robg said: > I have FreeBSD 5.3 running on a remote machine and when doing `ps -aux` I see: > > root 13 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq1: atkbd0] > root 14 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq3: sio1] Those are all kernel threads; they aren't really processes. You can tell the difference because kernel threads have a VSZ of 0. > What are all of these? This is a fresh install and I didn't see all > of those in 5.2.1.. Is there a way to clean them up or are they vital > to the system? It may be that ps in 5.3 displays these by default, where 5.2 might not have. They were definitely there :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com