... with the addenum that the new parent of all the supposed orphans has become 1 / init.
__armando On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Armando Di Cianno <[email protected]> wrote: >> $ ps -e -o pid,pid,lstart,time,command -H|grep -C 4 wmii > > The second 'pid' should've been 'ppid', but I think the parenting is > still pretty clear in the original ps list. > > __armando > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Armando Di Cianno <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I'm using the sunaku wmiirc setup, with some modifications, from >> github. I tend to restart/re-run wmiirc a lot, as I make >> modifications. I'm running an up-to-date Gentoo Linux system, with a >> pretty basic setup. I had some X updates, so I decided to finally log >> out, and try to diagnose an issue I observed that I thought might be >> make clear with a fresh X log in. >> >> Anyways, basically I have multiple wmiirc's (ruby ones, in this case), >> but only one seems germane to the current session. Here's a ps >> output edited slightly for clarity. (Mail viewer's w/o monospace >> might not show the parenting well.) >> >> $ ps -e -o pid,pid,lstart,time,command -H|grep -C 4 wmii >> ... >> 18600 18600 Tue Nov 17 16:45:15 2009 00:00:00 wmii >> ... >> 17775 17775 Wed Dec 2 11:52:34 2009 00:00:16 ruby >> /home/fafhrd/.wmii/ruby-git/wmiirc >> 2447 2447 Wed Dec 2 15:29:06 2009 00:00:00 wmii >> ... >> 19328 19328 Thu Dec 10 14:16:48 2009 00:00:00 ruby >> /home/fafhrd/.wmii/ruby-git/wmiirc >> ... >> 19759 19759 Thu Dec 10 14:19:05 2009 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm >> 19760 19760 Thu Dec 10 14:19:05 2009 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm >> 19764 19764 Thu Dec 10 14:19:05 2009 00:01:04 /usr/bin/X :0 >> -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 >> 19796 19796 Thu Dec 10 14:19:20 2009 00:00:00 /bin/sh >> /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession custom >> 19829 19829 Thu Dec 10 14:19:20 2009 00:00:00 xscreensaver -no-splash >> 19832 19832 Thu Dec 10 14:19:20 2009 00:00:00 wmii >> ... >> 19866 19866 Thu Dec 10 14:19:20 2009 00:00:00 wmii >> 19896 19896 Thu Dec 10 14:19:20 2009 00:00:05 ruby >> /home/fafhrd/.wmii/ruby-git/wmiirc >> >> Now, if I run ~/.wmii/wmiirc (that file contains "wmiir xwrite /ctl >> spawn ruby-git/wmiirc") again, I notice the following: >> 1) wmii proceses still there: 18600, 2447, 19832, 19866 (all of them) >> 2) ruby wmiirc processes still there: 17775, 19328 >> 3) ruby wmiirc processes gone: 19896 >> 4) ruby wmiirc processes new: 26416 >> >> I am seeing normal behavior here? Does anyone else have rogue wmii's >> or wmiirc's? FWIW, the same behavior was happening to be in the sh >> wmiirc's a while back, but I didn't think much of it, at the time. >> How harmful could the extra wmiirc's processes be? Could they be >> "eating" event from /event in 9p? >> >> The first wmii and wmiirc seem clearly wrong, having been launched on Dec >> 2nd. >> >> Thanks for any info -- a bit confused here, >> __armando >> >
