Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 May 1999 21:48:31 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: Is this bad? |
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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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