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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Process names
Date: 20 Dec 2014 05:59:56 GMT
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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?

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