I understand that the ps -ax would have spawned at least one more
process (and a header) than the sysctl count, but I'm not seeing why
sysctl is showing 11 more processes than ps does:
$ sysctl kern.nprocs && (ps -ax |wc -l) && sysctl kern.nprocs
kern.nprocs=46
35
kern.nprocs=46
This machine has been up a while and has had enough various errors to
make the boot dmesg disappear from logs, so here's the various kern.*
sysctl's that show what kernel I'm running:
kern.ostype=OpenBSD
kern.osrelease=3.8
kern.osrevision=200511
kern.version=OpenBSD 3.8-current (GENERIC) #320: Sat Dec 17 10:09:10 MST 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
A 3.9 system is a tad different, but exhibits the same strangeness:
$ sysctl kern.nprocs && (ps -ax |wc -l) && sysctl kern.nprocs
kern.nprocs=48
39
kern.nprocs=48
Any idea where the discrepancy might be coming from?
--Bill
