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Date:      Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:50:08 -0500
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange process
Message-ID:  <492FC03C-E308-4438-B36C-975B608BF167@ece.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060215223432.GH70956@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Feb 15, 2006, at 5:34 , Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Feb 15), Kris Kennaway said:
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:42:04PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
>>
>> I often see this too.  For example:
>>
>>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU  
>> COMMAND
>>  5357 kkenn         1  96    0     0K     0K START    0:00  0.35%  
>> xpdf
>>
>>> ps -waux  | grep xpdf
>> kkenn    5357  0.3  0.0     0     0  ??  RE   Sun08PM   0:00.20  
>> [xpdf]
>>
>>> ps lp 5357
>>   UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ   RSS MWCHAN STAT  TT        
>> TIME COMMAND
>
> That syntax should have worked...  Try a plain "px axl | grep xpdf"
> instead.

I was asked to look at something like this a week ago; as above, it  
was stuck in START and "ps" refused to show it without "x".  (Didn't  
really get anywhere with it.)

-- 
brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]       
allbery@kf8nh.com
system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]   
allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university       
KF8NH






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