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Re: Process names

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In article <cg023mFtkgjU3@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
<jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2014-12-24, Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> wrote:
> > In article <barmar-D69A8C.11160223122014@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>,
> > Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >> 
> >> You could use "top", which is the Terminal command that Process Viewer 
> >> is similar to.
> >
> > I used "top -l2000" and piped the ouput to a text file while watching
> > Process Viewer for a weird process name. Once one appeared I clicked on
> > it to get the ID number. I waited a few more Process Viewer updates and
> > then stopped the Terminal "top" command.
> >
> > Performing a Find in the text file doesn't find the ID number for the
> > weird process name from Process Viewer. I tried a few weird processes,
> > but none turn up in the "top" command's output.
> >
> > Stranger and stranger.
> 
> This is a very old version of Mac OS X, right? It's quite possible
> you're just seeing a bug in Process Viewer that causes it to show
> processes that aren't actually there.

That was one of my original thoughts. Just artefacts from the slow
computer not being able to retrieve and display the information fast
enough and ending up with a bit of garbage being displayed.

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Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-20 14:30 +1300
  Re: Process names Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-20 01:43 +0000
  Re: Process names JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-12-19 21:15 -0500
  Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-20 18:17 +1300
    Re: Process names Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-20 05:59 +0000
    Re: Process names Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> - 2014-12-19 22:38 -0800
      Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-20 20:04 +1300
        Re: Process names Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-19 23:32 -0800
          Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-23 13:10 +1300
            Re: Process names Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-22 16:24 -0800
              Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-23 19:15 +1300
                Re: Process names Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-12-23 11:16 -0500
                Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-24 16:34 +1300
                Re: Process names Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-24 14:49 +0000
                Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-25 19:31 +1300
  Re: Process names JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-12-20 03:17 -0500
    Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-21 09:48 +1300

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