Anyone seen this process? -:0

haggishunk · 05-13-2006, 05:16 PM

When I switch to superuser mode and execute "ps -x" I see a process labeled as such:

-:0

It has a higher PID value, more congruous with my user processes. STAT is S and TIME is 0:00 even after 3.75 days of uptime.

This string is difficult to search for with meaningful results, so I haven't seen anything on the internet about it. I haven't noticed it in screenshots of ps dumps either, so it doesn't seem normal. I'm running slackware 10.2 on a pentium. Does anyone have any advice?

btmiller · 05-13-2006, 05:51 PM

Are you sure it's not X :0? If so this is the X server process running on the first display (:0). If not, I'd suggest peeking around in its /proc/<pid> directory and using lsof to investigate what it's doing.

gilead · 05-13-2006, 05:56 PM

I think that's the process for display 0 for your X session. On my system, when I run ps auxfww, here's the output including that process:

Code:

root     24222  0.0  0.0   2812   852 ?        Ss   May06   0:00 /opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
root      6121  0.1  1.3  26172 21284 tty7     RLs+ May13   1:50  \_ /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-yAYsSw
root      6134  0.0  0.0   3172  1160 ?        S    May13   0:00  \_ -:0                       
steve    19833  0.0  0.1   3056  1568 ?        Ss   05:33   0:00      \_ /bin/sh /opt/kde/bin/startkde
steve    19902  0.0  0.0   1544   328 ?        S    05:33   0:00          \_ kwrapper ksmserver

haggishunk · 05-19-2006, 08:43 PM

Sweetness. So is auxfww a BSD-style option?

gilead · 05-20-2006, 12:34 AM

Yes, that's right

The aux displays all of the processes on the system, f does the forest type view and the ww is for unlimited width of output.