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1 total messages Started by Dave Kinchlea Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:01

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Author: Dave Kinchlea
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:01

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Howdy:
	I have a couple of questions regarding NeXT boxes and certain
processes. Yesterday a user was complaining that the NeXT station
seemed slow and so I looked into it and ps reported two things that
confuse me, I was hoping someone could explain this:

next.heart.rri.uwo.ca> ps aux | more
USER       PID  %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
vesely     148  49.9  7.1 23.9M 1.41M ?  S     17hr - console (WindowServer)
root      5445  13.9  3.2 1.72M  656K p3 R     0:00 ps aux
kinch     5446   0.6  1.1 1.34M  224K p3 S     0:00 more

next.heart.rri.uwo.ca> whoami
kinch

The first quesetion regards the "- console (WindowServer)", this
person logged in less than 10 minutes before I issued this command so
it seems unlikely that it has chewed up 17hrs of CPU ;-( Also notice
the very small PID, it clearly is a process that has been around for
awhile. 

The second question regards the "ps aux" command seemingly owned by
root, clearly kinch issued the command why does that not show up?

I am most intereseted in this as a matter of curiosity, however in the
case of the console process, it is rather largeer than it need be and
I noticed that when it got killed, the next login was *somewhat*
faster. 

Please respond by email, I will post a summary if there is interest.

cheerskinch

Dave Kinchlea            
email:	 	kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca
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		John P. Robarts Research Institute.
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