From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 9 13:51:31 2005 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 59B8D16A4E8 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 13:51:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A8A43DA8 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 13:51:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john.oxley@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so1538293wri for ; Mon, 09 May 2005 06:51:30 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=ImapHDWQHmOguest28B/WCewLD9FvkGn/ELrjhnQ25zZEo94is2w/IyUx/gn14mePtcTiobGOw7AQffk/fLDFskbGdEGE8S6HGAC7ztEPhDonaQZ/i7xgh8k/SSvc0OaIyrr/MqImHJRz1EuQ8ZyH8Xyq/11cF+4nc8Z18qDPeQ= Received: by 10.54.83.1 with SMTP id g1mr2575914wrb; Mon, 09 May 2005 06:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.63.12 with HTTP; Mon, 9 May 2005 06:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:51:30 +0200 From: John Oxley To: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Process tracking X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Oxley List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 13:51:31 -0000 Right, when i run top I see perl grazing 50% of my CPU. How do I find out what process actually launched that. Linux has a nifty utility called htop, but that is not in the FreeBSD ports. I have looked at porting it, but it seems that htop talks straight to the kernel.... Any ideas? TIA -John