Re: What is the "[system]" process representing ?

2016-12-10 Thread Michael van Elst
swiftgri...@gmail.com (Swift Griggs) writes: >Next time it happens, I'll pay attention and expand the kernel threads to >see which one is doing it. I guess there is no way to do a gdb 'attach' to >the kernel thread to get a backtrace, though. I'm assuming one has to do >this sort of thing with

Re: What is the "[system]" process representing ?

2016-10-04 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Michael van Elst wrote: > [system] is all the kernel threads. In top you can switch to thread > display and get more details. Kernel threads are also displayd with 'ps > -s' and you can augment the display with the thread name using '-o > lname'. Ah, I should have known ther

Re: What is the "[system]" process representing ?

2016-10-04 Thread Michael van Elst
swiftgri...@gmail.com (Swift Griggs) writes: >Folks, I recently installed NetBSD on a Lenovo M83 Tiny machine and from >time to time, I notice the "[system]" (appears to be a kernel thread?) >getting up to 80% of the CPU while the box is doing nothing. [system] is all the kernel threads. I

Re: What is the "[system]" process representing ?

2016-10-03 Thread Mike Pumford
On 03/10/2016 19:35, Swift Griggs wrote: Folks, I recently installed NetBSD on a Lenovo M83 Tiny machine and from time to time, I notice the "[system]" (appears to be a kernel thread?) getting up to 80% of the CPU while the box is doing nothing. No processes are active and a reboot clears t

What is the "[system]" process representing ?

2016-10-03 Thread Swift Griggs
Folks, I recently installed NetBSD on a Lenovo M83 Tiny machine and from time to time, I notice the "[system]" (appears to be a kernel thread?) getting up to 80% of the CPU while the box is doing nothing. No processes are active and a reboot clears the issue (except when it doesn't. I pow