Hi all,
Here is the output of ps xa after a normal boot :
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:00 init [5]
2 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
3 ? S< 0:00 [events/0]
4 ? S< 0:00 [khelper]
9 ? S< 0:00 [kthread]
21 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/0]
55 ? S 0:00 [kapmd]
78 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
79 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
81 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0]
80 ? S 0:00 [kswapd0]
675 ? S 0:00 [kseriod]
767 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
804 ? S<s 0:02 udevd
1420 ? S 0:00 [khubd]
7082 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
14734 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/ifplugd -b -i eth0
14775 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/ifplugd -b -i eth1
14883 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --skip-networking --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
14917 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/ru
15055 ? Ss 0:00 portmap
Here is /var/log/kernel/info
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.11-6mdk
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Loaded 20310 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.11-6mdk.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.11.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: 0MB HIGHMEM available.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: 511MB LOWMEM available.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 130864
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Normal zone: 126768 pages, LIFO batch:16
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: DMI 2.3 present.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000f9e10
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x11000318 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1ff30000
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ACPI: FADT (v002 A M I OEMFACP 0x11000318 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1ff30200
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x11000318 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1ff30300
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I OEMBIOS 0x11000318 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1ff40040
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 1OOXX 1OOXX001 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x81] disabled)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: OEM ID: TEMPLATE Product ID: APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: I/O APIC #1 Version 3 at 0xFEC00000.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Processors: 1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: bootsplash: silent mode.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Memory: 514068k/523456k available (2295k kernel code, 8788k reserved, 686k data, 264k init, 0k highmem, 0k
BadRAM)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 5521.40 BogoMIPS (lpj=2760704)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00004400 00000000 00000000
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Intel machine check architecture supported.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Freeing initrd memory: 216k freed
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 16
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: PnPBIOS: Disabled
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: PCI: Via IRQ fixup
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router default [1106/3177] at 0000:00:11.0
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: inotify device minor=63
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Initializing Cryptographic API
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe0880000, using 3750k, total 65536k
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=67
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5406
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 35024 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 3
4976 bytes, v3).
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: io scheduler noop registered
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: io scheduler anticipatory registered
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: io scheduler deadline registered
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: io scheduler cfq registered
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: pktcdvd: v0.2.0a 2004-07-14 Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de) and
petero2@telia.com
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda
MA, hdb
MA
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc
MA, hdd
MA
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Probing IDE interface ide0...
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Probing IDE interface ide1...
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hda: max request size: 1024KiB
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hda: cache flushes supported
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 >
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hdb: max request size: 1024KiB
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hdb: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hdb: cache flushes supported
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 2
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 2 devices found
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: md: autorun ...
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: md: ... autorun DONE.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 264k freed
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 11, io base 0xe000
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 5, io base 0xe080
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 10, io base 0xec00
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Adding 2554292k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: DIGI epca driver version 1.3.0.1-LK loaded.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: ESP serial driver version 2.2 (DMA 0)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Stallion Intelligent Multiport Serial Driver: version 5.6.0
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: MOXA Intellio family driver version 5.1k
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: MOXA Smartio/Industio family driver version 1.8
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Stallion Multiport Serial Driver: version 5.6.0
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Cronyx Ltd, Synchronous PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Linux port (c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: HDLC support module revision 1.17
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: agpgart: Detected VIA P4M266x/P4N266 chipset
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Supermount version 2.0.4 for kernel 2.6
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: eth0: VIA Rhine III at 0x1d800, 00:0d:88:17:95:3b, IRQ 3.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 41e1.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: eth1: VIA Rhine II at 0x1e800, 00:0e:a6:34:18:04, IRQ 11.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 41e1.
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
Jul 2 14:40:29 localhost kernel: eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
I want to know why does the system jump from 1420 to 7082 then 14734. Thnx