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In article <myh9wqesgk.fsf@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU>, Martin Frost me at
invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> wrote:

> Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I don't know what Process Viewer is or where it comes from, but here's
> a guess at what might be happening.
> 
> Perhaps you're running Process Viewer on a version of MacOS X that is
> newer than the version your Process Viewer was built for, with the
> result being that it's looking at incorrect kernel locations for data.
> 
> Martin

Process Viewer is the Apple's own app that is installed in the
Utilities folder when installing OS X. They changed the name of the app
in later OS versions.

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  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
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