krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (10/10/90)
Here's a new one ... my machine which is our "glbd" and "rgyd" master is
accumulating prcesses which show up in the /com/dspst display as
"level 2 process". I've got about a half dozen of these right now. They
don't show up in /com/pst, but they do show up in the output of
/bin/ps -aux, which I've
included below. Note that these all have low-numbered PID's, but they
weren't present when the machine was booted. Anyone have any idea of
what these creatures are/do/come from?
$ /bin/ps -aux
USER PID SZ RSS TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
root 1 1216 29 ? S < 1:23 /etc/init
root 2 0 0 ? R 74801:06 null
root 3 0 0 ? S 113:24 purifier
root 4 0 0 ? S 3:48 purifier
root 5 0 0 ? S 235:38 unwired_dxm
root 6 0 0 ? S 0:00 pinger
root 7 0 0 ? S 1077:53 netreceive
root 8 0 0 ? S 147:09 netpaging
root 9 0 0 ? S 94:26 wired_dxm
root 10 0 0 ? S 227:36 netrequest
root 19 0 0 ? S 148:22 netpaging
root 20 0 0 ? S 225:24 netrequest
root 31 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2
root 32 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2
root 33 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2
root 34 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2
root 36 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2
root 37 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2
root 38 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2
root 13425 1888 89 ? S 45:04 /etc/tcpd
root 13432 1920 0 ? S 0:01 /etc/inetd
root 13435 2080 37 ? S 0:05 /etc/ncs/llbd
root 13437 3072 148 ? S 22:19 /etc/ncs/glbd
13447 736 13 ? S 0:49 /sys/spm/spm
13450 928 4 ? S 0:04 /sys/mbx/mbx_helper
root 13451 704 15 ? S 0:00 /sys/net/netman
13453 736 21 ? S 0:02 /com/qsend_server
root 13459 3232 58 ? S 0:47 /etc/Xapollo -K /usr/X11/lib/keyboard/keyboard.config -D1 s+r-
root 13461 2880 237 ? S < 128:57 dm
root 13463 2112 53 ? S 1:04 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m
root 13520 3680 262 ? S < 27:30 rgyd
root 17209 608 12 ? S 0:09 /com/ckmail -r -b
root 17276 1568 71 ? S 4:05 vtserver
root 13474 608 0 node_data/dev/ S 0:00 - 9600-baud tty01
root 17206 832 60 pad0001 S 0:02 -sh
root 1733821536 161 pad0001 S 33:14 wbak -f cur -full -ld -vid BACKUP -fid rayleigh_backup //rayleigh
root 17207 832 65 pad0002 S 0:07 /com/sh
root 17271 1472 64 pad0002 R 17:11 dspst -a
root 17293 832 58 pad0003 S 0:00 /com/sh
root 17313 832 35 pad0004 S 0:04 /com/sh
root 17343 1024 162 pad0004 R 0:01 /bin/ps -aux
root 17296 896 13 ttyp9 S 0:00 vt100 /com/telnet mit-richter
root 17297 2240 31 ttyp9 S 1:21 telnet mit-richter
-- David Krowitz
krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109)
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(in order of decreasing preference)system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) (10/11/90)
In article <9010091739.AA21881@richter.mit.edu> krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) writes: >Here's a new one ... my machine which is our "glbd" and "rgyd" master is >accumulating prcesses which show up in the /com/dspst display as >"level 2 process". Anyone have any idea of >what these creatures are/do/come from? > >$ /bin/ps -aux >USER PID SZ RSS TTY STAT TIME COMMAND >root 31 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2 >root 32 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2 >root 33 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2 >root 34 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2 >root 36 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2 >root 37 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2 >root 38 0 0 ? T 0:00 level2 I wish I knew what these were too - once you get one of these beasties though you've had it though - it's reboot time while you still can. We only seem to get them one at a time, but they mainly appear on our (DN10000) 'glbd' and master 'rgyd' node too. -- Mike Peterson, System Administrator, U/Toronto Department of Chemistry E-mail: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca Tel: (416) 978-7094 Fax: (416) 978-8775