Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:51:46 +0100 (WET DST) | From | (Dave Rynne) | Subject | ps problem with new kernels |
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I don't know if anybody else is having this problem but here is something I noticed last night not long after booting 1.3.94. Everything appeared to be working fine until I started up X (under my normal user account rather than as root). Then doing a ps -auxwww as root gave the following:
root@Zoso:~# ps -auxwww USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND dave 62 0.0 7.0 1132 488 ? S 23:12 0:00 -sh root 1 0.0 1.2 780 88 ? S 23:12 0:01 init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 23:12 0:00 (kflushd) root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< 23:12 0:00 (kswapd) root 8 0.0 0.8 764 60 ? S 23:12 0:00 /sbin/kerneld root 11 0.0 0.4 840 32 ? S 23:12 0:00 update (bdflush) root 38 0.0 2.5 872 176 ? S 23:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -l8 root 50 0.0 1.9 880 136 ? S 23:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd root 52 0.0 1.3 860 92 ? S 23:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd root 54 0.0 0.0 880 0 ? SW 23:12 0:00 (inetd) root 56 0.0 0.0 1088 0 ? SW 23:12 0:00 (httpd) root 60 0.0 2.7 1072 188 ? S 23:12 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections root 63 0.0 0.0 120 0 ? SW 23:12 0:00 (agetty) root 64 0.0 0.0 120 0 ? SW 23:12 0:00 (agetty) root 65 0.0 0.0 120 0 ? SW 23:12 0:00 (agetty) root 66 0.0 0.0 120 0 ? SW 23:12 0:00 (agetty) root 134 0.0 7.2 1132 500 ? S 23:17 0:00 -sh root 196 0.0 4.9 812 340 ? R 01:36 0:00 ps -auxwww
(note the TTYs)
and ``w'' returned this:
root@Zoso:~# w 1:36am up 2:24, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.08, 0.03 User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what dave tty1 11:13pm - root tty6 11:18pm -
Note: I was not su'd or anything like that on tty1 (just logged in as normal).
This only appeared as soon as I started up X (from non superuser account) and remained after X was shutdown again. Using the same commands under a normal user account reports everything as it should be.
i.e.
dave@Zoso:~$ w 1:37am up 2:25 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.08, 0.03 User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what dave tty1 11:13pm w root tty6 11:18pm -sh
I didn't notice this under 1.3.91 or previous and I didn't get a chance to build 1.3.92 and 1.3.93 so I can't comment on those. Also, the kernel built cleanly so I'm ruling out problems with the make and I'm using the latest versions of what the kernel docs tell me I should be using (or at least they were the latest versions two days ago).
I cold booted the machine later and checked again to see if this was still happening and it was. What's really confusing me is that it only appears to be screwed up for root - I thought that root should have no trouble reading process information and not as it is above.
Any ideas?
Dave -- Dave Rynne email: darynne@nox.nyx.net University College, dave@galway-guide.com Galway, Dave.Rynne@ucg.ie Ireland. www: http://www.nyx.net/~darynne/
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