Hi,
Strangely my debian sometimes starts two of each of the kernel processes (as
can be seen in the attached pstree and ps awx outputs) . Could you please
explain or give pointers to info, on why this is happening ?
balbir thomas
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:10 init
2 ? SW 0:02 [kflushd]
3 ? SW 0:04 [kupdate]
4 ? SW 0:00 [kpiod]
5 ? SW 0:03 [kswapd]
133 ? S 0:00 /sbin/dhclient-2.2.x eth0
137 ? S 0:00 /sbin/portmap
142 ? S 0:00 /sbin/rpc.ugidd
213 ? S 0:00 /sbin/syslogd
215 ? S 0:00 /sbin/klogd
236 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/automount /var/autofs/misc file
/etc/auto.misc
246 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -r 15
256 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/routed
263 ? S 0:01 /usr/sbin/sshd
288 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/xfs-xtt -user nobody
293 ? S 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --port 7101 --daemon --user
nobody
299 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/xinetd
306 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
309 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
314 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
318 tty2 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
319 tty3 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
320 tty4 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
321 tty5 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
322 tty6 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
323 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
324 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
325 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
326 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
327 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
915 ? S 0:00 nmbd -a
1196 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
15974 ? SN 0:00 /usr/sbin/wwwoffled -c /etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf
16562 tty1 S 0:00 -bash
16855 ? SN 0:00 /usr/sbin/fakebo -b
16981 ? SN 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd
4131 ? SN 0:00 sh ./start --pid-file=/var/run/roxen/roxen.pid
4140 ? SN 0:06 bin/pike -DROXEN -DMODULE_DEBUG
-m/usr/lib/pike/master.pike -Metc/modules -Ietc/include -Ibase_server
-P/usr/lib/roxen base_server/roxenloader.pike --config-dir=/etc/roxen/
6928 tty1 R 0:00 ps awx
init-+-apache---6*[apache]
|-atd
|-automount
|-bash---pstree
|-cron
|-dhclient-2.2.x
|-fakebo
|-5*[getty]
|-gpm
|-kflushd
|-klogd
|-kpiod
|-kswapd
|-kupdate
|-lpd
|-portmap
|-routed
|-rpc.ugidd
|-sshd
|-start---pike
|-syslogd
|-wwwoffled
|-xfs-xtt
|-xfstt
`-xinetd---nmbd
