Re: Questions about processes

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Lord Raiden wrote: These are kernel threads. 5.x is more modular than 4.x and a lot of functionality has been moved to internal threads (for the sake of SMP). There's really nothing wrong with this; esp. since the number of threads is still pretty small :) The kernel may create more such threads if

Re: Questions about processes

2005-04-26 Thread Lord Raiden
These are kernel threads. 5.x is more modular than 4.x and a lot of functionality has been moved to internal threads (for the sake of SMP). There's really nothing wrong with this; esp. since the number of threads is still pretty small :) The kernel may create more such threads if it needs them; li

Re: Questions about processes

2005-04-26 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 12:14:26AM -0400, Alexander Chamandy wrote: > On 4/25/05, Lord Raiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. Looking for some info about some processes I've got > > running on my box. I'm new to 5.3 having used the 4x line for a long time > > and I'm curious about

Re: Questions about processes

2005-04-26 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:18:30PM -0400, Lord Raiden wrote: > Hi all. Looking for some info about some processes I've got > running on my box. I'm new to 5.3 having used the 4x line for a long time > and I'm curious about my process list. When I do "ps -ax" I get the > following list

Re: Questions about processes

2005-04-26 Thread Lord Raiden
Most of those processes are used by the kernel, some of them, if you aren't using the specific hardware or functionality they provide (such as USB or ktrace) can be disabled by compiling your own kernel (see here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/kernelconfig.html). While this

Re: Questions about processes

2005-04-25 Thread Alexander Chamandy
On 4/25/05, Lord Raiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. Looking for some info about some processes I've got > running on my box. I'm new to 5.3 having used the 4x line for a long time > and I'm curious about my process list. When I do "ps -ax" I get the > following list as seen bel

Questions about processes

2005-04-25 Thread Lord Raiden
Hi all. Looking for some info about some processes I've got running on my box. I'm new to 5.3 having used the 4x line for a long time and I'm curious about my process list. When I do "ps -ax" I get the following list as seen below. Are all of these items really needed and if not, wh