From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 20 03:03:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA21885 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 03:03:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21879 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:03:29 GMT (envelope-from bkogawa@primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA10550; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 03:03:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from ip200.sjc.primenet.com(206.165.96.200), claiming to be "foo.primenet.com" via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd010536; Mon Apr 20 03:03:22 1998 Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) id DAA15997; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 03:04:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 03:04:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804201004.DAA15997@foo.primenet.com> To: ken@mui.net Subject: Re: httpd and top Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.questions References: <199804200331.RAA01000@rocksalt.mui.net> From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >I've noticed something has creeped up on me, and I'm not sure why. >when I type top, I can see the httpd processes run as user nobody, >however, there seems to be one process httpd running as root. Is >this normal? i don't remember seeing this. Oh, and for some reason >it's in pause. Yes, this is normal. The root one is the "master" which spawns the nobody processes, thus it also sits idle most of the time. -- bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message