Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.sys.mac.system > #67741

Re: Process names

Show all headers | View raw

On 2014-12-20, Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> wrote:
> In article <201220141430104225%mickey@mousehouse.com>, Mickey MacMouse
><mickey@mousehouse.com> wrote:
>
>> I was just looking at Process Viewer to check CPU usage of an app and
>> spotted a few weird processes popping up and disappearing. These had
>> strange names like the Apple logo, the infinity sumbol, or a few other
>> weird characters. I think they were all Root processes. Anyone know
>> what these are?
>
> I was wrong. They are so quick to appear and disappear that I thought I
> had read them as root. They are instead ??? user. It is tricky to get a
> screengrab of one due to the speed and being random. I did get one as
> shown in the top entry of this screengrab.
> http://s12.postimg.org/aspu6wkgd/Process_Viewer.jpg
> Most are single character names. A few have been two to three
> characters. They could just be artefacts of Process Viewer being too
> slow to retrieve all the information as with the impossible CPU
> percentage. It is a slow old G3 CRT iMac.

That is peculiar.

1. What version Mac OS X are you running?

2. Do any of these processes show up in the listing you get when you
enter this command in terminal?:

ps awux

3. When did you first notice this issue?

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

Back to comp.sys.mac.system | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

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

csiph-web