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From: schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: ps weirdness
Date: 8 Dec 1995 09:23:18 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
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Message-ID: <4a9066$1tqk@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de
A few questions concerning ps as of the 2.1.0 release:
First some output, then my questions.
% ps -N /kernel.GENERIC -x # Yes, I'm really running the GENERIC kernel
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
0 ?? DLs 0:00.00 (swapper)
1 ?? Is 0:00.00 (init)
2 ?? DL 0:00.00 (pagedaemon)
3 ?? DL 0:00.00 (vmdaemon)
4 ?? DL 0:00.00 (update)
45 ?? Is 0:00.00 (routed)
60 ?? Is 0:00.00 (syslogd)
77 ?? Is 0:00.00 (inetd)
84 ?? Is 0:00.00 (cron)
86 ?? Is 0:00.00 (lpd)
148 v0 Ss 0:00.00 (bash)
246 v0 R+ 0:00.00 (ps) <- not sorted after PID
149 v1 Is+ 0:00.00 (bash)
150 v2 Is+ 0:00.00 (getty)
(approximately the same output when I run my custom kernel)
- Why are all TIME fields 0:00.00? (top(1), however, reports TIME > 0)
- Why is the output not sorted by PID although ps(1) says it should be?
- Why are all processes in parentheses? Where are the invocation options?
- I read the notes in the handbook about ps not working with new kernels
but shouldn't it work with the generic kernel from the same release?
- What did I screw up?
Inquiring minds want to know...
Bye, Jens
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