On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:08:30AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I do pstree and I see "khubd". "What could that be about?," I say. I
> try locate, man, apt-cache search, looking in /proc/{it's pid},
> everything I can think of. After removing the "k",
> find /var/tmp/kernel-source-2.4.18/|grep hubd
> finds some uncommented files that may have something to do with it...
>
> Anyway, is it really sometimes that hard to track down things one sees
> in ps(1) output?
Yes.
The processes you're talking about are kernel threads. In ps, as opposed
to pstree, you'll see them surrounded by []. They are internal to the
kernel and not necessarily very well-documented to people who aren't
kernel hackers, since generally speaking only kernel hackers should need
to worry about them in detail.
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