OBERMAN@ICDC.LLNL.GOV ("Kevin Oberman, LLNL, 422-6955, L-156", 415) (01/30/88)
>I seem to remember this question asked a while ago, but I don't recall >reading an answer. Very simply, why does show users report one more >person than is actually on the system. Can this be fixed easily? I >know it's not a big deal, I was just curious more than anything. The reason is that the count comes from counting utilized process slot. Then the information is extraxted from the process headers to fill in the following lines. If a process exits while SHOW USERS is active , the counts will be off. Similarly if a new process starts up. Long term mismatches are often the result of partially created or deleted processes, often ones in Resource Waits. These can hang around forever but because they are partially deleted, the only are counted. Do a SHOW SYSTEM and look for the missing processes. Ignore Batch, Network and other non-interactive processes (mostly they should be system oriented such as NULL, SWAPPER, OPCOM...). R. Kevin Oberman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov (415) 422-6955 Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.