leaf crash :-)

Hiten Pandya hmp at nxad.com
Wed Sep 3 07:39:43 PDT 2003


On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:51:10AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
: 
:     Oh, I noticed that on an MP system 'ps' rather hillariously only lists
:     the pure kernel threads (the ones without an associated proc) connected
:     to whatever cpu the sysctl was run on rather then listing the threads
:     for all the cpus.  e.g. I run 'ps ax' and see idle_0, usched 0,
:     and all the interrupt threads.  Then I run it again and I only see
:     idle_1 and usched 1.  It's kinda funny, actually.  If someone wants to
:     have a go at fixing this low-priority issue I'll be happy to review.
: 

	Heh, not only that, I also find the following output a little
	weird when listing processes without a terminal attached to it:

	%%%
	USER    PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
	root     -1  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  IL   31Dec69   0:00.10	(vnlru)
	root     -1  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  IL   31Dec69   0:00.35	(bufdaemon)
	root     -1  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  IL   31Dec69   0:00.00	(vmdaemon)
	root     -1  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  IL   31Dec69   0:00.06	(pagedaemon)
	root     -1  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  IL   31Dec69   0:00.00	(ithread 25)
	root     -1  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  IL   31Dec69   0:00.00	(ithread 8)
	root     -1  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  IL   31Dec69   0:00.00	(ithread 0)
	root     -1  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  IL   31Dec69   0:00.00	(ithread 3)
	root     -1  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  IL   31Dec69   0:00.00	(ithread 4)
	root     -1  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  IL   31Dec69   0:00.00	(ithread 24)
	root     -1  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  IL   31Dec69   0:00.00	(ithread 1)
	%%%

	/me smiles...
	
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Hiten Pandya
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