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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:3886 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1127 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!pagesat!news.cerf.net!nic.cerf.net!speakez From: speakez@nic.cerf.net (Robert Crowe) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: ps Bug? Date: 17 Jul 1993 17:01:19 GMT Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer Lines: 22 Message-ID: <229b8v$9kj@news.cerf.net> References: <1693196.38300.4069@status.gen.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.cerf.net Keywords: ps , bug In article <1693196.38300.4069@status.gen.nz> craigw@status.gen.nz (Craig Whitmore,My Amazing Amiga ,A500,649-292-4859) writes: >I just did a ps -aux on out 386bsd system and it came with a very strange >output.. > >USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND ... >root 0 0.0 0.1 0 0 ?? DLs 7:58AM 0:00.09 (swapper) >news 1793 -3.3 0.8 488 48 ?? R 2:05PM 420:29.72 (expire) > > > ^^^^^ no why are they using -% of cpu for?? I wouldn't consider this a bug, rather a feature: just start about 1000 expire processes and see what happens, you should end up with something like a cray 8-) > >Craig Whitmore. (craigw@status.gen.nz) > -Bob bob@prepress.com