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SubjectRe: Is this bad?
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 08:58:51AM -0400, Mike Panetta wrote:

> I did a ps -aux on a machine here and I noticed a line that looked like
> this in the process list (copied down):
>
> root 2 0.4 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr 27 71224914:52 (kflushd)

> There is a similer line for kswapd. This looks suspicious to me.
> Is it normal for a process to have a CPU time this high? Espically
> if the machine has only been up for 6 and a half days? The machine is
> running a 2.0.36 kernel.

Err, no. Especially given that that is about 135 years... I would suspect
an old / buggy version of ps or a strange interaction between it and /proc.

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