Hi all,

ok, another dumb question about 5.3..

Where did all the processes come from ???

It looks like maybe processes for each IRQ have been separated out...

There used to be only about a dozen or so processes, and now theres
about 70...

Are these something that can be turned off ? or are they just
representations of threads ???

I guess its not really important, but I was just wondering...

Tim.



here's an example :

bash-2.05b# ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
root 11 95.7 0.0 0 20 ?? RL 6:52PM 20:25.87 [idle: cpu1]
root 12 82.5 0.0 0 20 ?? RL 6:52PM 15:50.76 [idle: cpu0]
root 0 0.0 0.0 0 4 ?? DLs 6:52PM 0:00.00 [swapper]
root 1 0.0 0.0 864 468 ?? ILs 6:52PM 0:00.01 /sbin/init --
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? DL 6:52PM 0:00.08 [g_event]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? DL 6:52PM 0:01.14 [g_up]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? DL 6:52PM 0:01.29 [g_down]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? DL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [kqueue taskq]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? DL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [thread taskq]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? IL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [acpi_task0]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? IL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [acpi_task1]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? IL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [acpi_task2]
root 10 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? DL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [ktrace]
root 13 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq1:]
root 14 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq0: clk]
root 15 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq3: sio1]
root 16 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq4: sio0]
root 17 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq5:]
root 18 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq6:]
root 19 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq7:]
root 20 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq8: rtc]
root 21 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq9: acpi0]
root 22 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq10:]
root 23 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq11:]
root 24 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq12:]
root 25 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq13:]
root 26 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq14: ata0]
root 27 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq15: ata1]
root 28 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq16:]
root 29 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq17:
atapci0]
root 30 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq18:]
root 31 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq19:]
root 32 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq20:]
root 33 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq21:]
root 34 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq22:]
root 35 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq23:]
root 36 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.96 [irq24:
bge0 ahd0]
root 37 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq25:
bge1 ahd1]
root 38 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq26:]
root 39 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq27:]
root 40 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq28:]
root 41 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq29:]
root 42 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq30:]
root 43 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [irq31:]
root 44 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:05.19 [swi5:
clock sio]
root 45 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [swi4: vm]
root 46 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.21 [swi1: net]
root 47 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? DL 6:52PM 0:00.09 [yarrow]
root 48 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [swi6:+]
root 49 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [swi6:+]
root 50 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [swi6: task
queue]
root 51 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [swi6:
acpitaskq]
root 52 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [swi2: camnet]
root 53 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.77 [swi3: cambio]
root 54 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? DL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [aic_recovery0]
root 55 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? DL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [aic_recovery1]
root 56 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? WL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [swi0: sio]
root 57 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? DL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [pagedaemon]
root 58 0.0 0.0 0 20 ?? DL 6:52PM 0:00.00 [vmdaemon]