From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 9 19:48:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD6614C03 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 19:48:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA15234; Mon, 10 May 1999 12:18:11 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA43174; Mon, 10 May 1999 12:18:01 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:17:59 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Michael Maxwell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Processes in parentheses? Message-ID: <19990510121759.W22791@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990509214106.A547@drwho.xnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990509214106.A547@drwho.xnet.com>; from Michael Maxwell on Sun, May 09, 1999 at 09:41:06PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 9 May 1999 at 21:41:06 -0500, Michael Maxwell wrote: > I have another wierd question. After having done a make world, when I > run "w", "ps", etc... all processes shown are in parentheses. Why is this? > > Example: > >> ps > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > 425 p1 Ss 0:00.00 (tcsh) > 556 p1 R+ 0:00.00 (ps) >> ps aux > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > sysadmin 586 0.0 0.2 412 240 p1 R+ - 0:00.00 (ps) > root 1 0.0 0.2 496 244 ?? Is - 0:00.00 (init) > root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DL - 0:00.00 (pagedaemon) > root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DL - 0:00.00 (vmdaemon) Two possibilties: 1. They're swapped out. This is the usual reason. 2. Your ps(1) doesn't match your kernel. I think this is what you're seeing here, since your ps itself is shown like that, and you're missing things like CPU time. I'd guess you've upgraded your kernel or your userland, and not the other. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message