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Sonk

Sonk

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Jun 5, 2001
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When running ps aux, this process seems to always head the list. What is kproc? It is still growing with an old date stamp, in spite of the fact that I rebooted the server last weekend.

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We have 2 entries. The big one is at the top. Is this a process that should be killed or left alone.

root 516 71.4 1.0 8 5972 - A Jan 30 5051:23 kproc
root 774 0.4 1.0 12 5972 - A Jan 30 31:51 kproc

I see now that all the root processes are dated Jan 30.
 
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Leave it alone, those are "kernal processes" which the OS itself is running.
 
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Thanks for the prompt response!
 
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