On 10/30/06, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Bill Marquette wrote:
> 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?
By default, ps does not show kernel processes. See ps(1), -k option.
-Otto
Gah, thanks! Never occurred to me that -a wouldn't show all
processes. Learn something every day, thanks to all for their
responses.
--Bill
--Bill
