Messages in this thread | | | From | Jared Mauch <> | Subject | Re: ps problem with new kernels | Date | Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:41:18 -0400 (EDT) |
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There is a patch at http://www2.nether.net/~jared/victim.html for this, as there were some more changes in the /proc filesystem in 1.3.91
- Jared
Dave Rynne just happened to explain this to us: > 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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