Getting double entries for process with ps -A
hi i just did ps -A and i noticed i have multiple entries for a few processes. Some as much as 3 or 4 as you can see from the output. Does anyone know why this happened? (just rebooted the computer if that is significant) Also is there a kill command to kill duplicate processes so i don't have to go through and kill the duplicates one by one? thanks for any help in advance.
[jeff@localhost jeff]$ ps -A PID TTY TIME CMD 1 ? 00:00:05 init 2 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0 3 ? 00:00:00 events/0 4 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0 6 ? 00:00:00 khelper 5 ? 00:00:00 khubd 7 ? 00:00:00 pdflush 8 ? 00:00:00 pdflush 10 ? 00:00:00 aio/0 9 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0 122 ? 00:00:00 kseriod 159 ? 00:00:00 kjournald 1290 ? 00:00:00 kjournald 1698 ? 00:00:00 dhclient 1745 ? 00:00:00 syslogd 1749 ? 00:00:00 klogd 1770 ? 00:00:00 portmap 1790 ? 00:00:00 rpc.statd 1817 ? 00:00:00 rpc.idmapd 1912 ? 00:00:00 smartd 1922 ? 00:00:00 acpid 1934 ? 00:00:00 cupsd 2122 ? 00:00:00 sshd 2137 ? 00:00:00 xinetd 2156 ? 00:00:00 sendmail 2165 ? 00:00:00 sendmail 2176 ? 00:00:00 gpm 2187 ? 00:00:00 crond 2209 ? 00:00:00 xfs 2228 ? 00:00:00 atd 2247 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon-1 2263 ? 00:00:00 mdadm 2293 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty 2299 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty 2310 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty 2311 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty 2312 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty 2313 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty 2314 ? 00:00:00 gdm-binary 2512 ? 00:00:00 gdm-binary 2523 ? 00:00:14 X 2553 ? 00:00:00 gnome-session 2601 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent 2605 ? 00:00:01 gconfd-2 2608 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d 2610 ? 00:00:00 bonobo-activati 2612 ? 00:00:01 metacity 2614 ? 00:00:00 gnome-settings- 2621 ? 00:00:00 fam 2690 ? 00:00:00 xscreensaver 2714 ? 00:00:01 gnome-panel 2716 ? 00:00:01 nautilus 2718 ? 00:00:00 magicdev 2720 ? 00:00:00 eggcups 2722 ? 00:00:00 pam-panel-icon 2724 ? 00:00:01 rhn-applet-gui 2725 ? 00:00:00 pam_timestamp_c 2728 ? 00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemo 2756 ? 00:00:00 mapping-daemon 2758 ? 00:00:00 clock-applet 2760 ? 00:00:00 notification-ar 2762 ? 00:00:00 mixer_applet2 2769 ? 00:00:01 wnck-applet 2805 ? 00:00:02 gaim 2808 ? 00:00:00 firefox 2830 ? 00:00:00 run-mozilla.sh 2835 ? 00:00:18 firefox-bin 3320 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal 3321 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe 3322 pts/2 00:00:00 bash 3365 ? 00:00:00 sendmail 3366 ? 00:00:00 sendmail 3368 ? 00:00:00 procmail 3369 ? 00:00:00 procmail 3370 ? 00:00:00 sendmail 3373 ? 00:00:00 procmail |
Which ones do you want to send to Hades in the
first place? The getty's are just the Fullscreen consoles. And in terms of the "mail" ... that's just the way they work, you don't want to kill them, either. Cheers, Tink |
Some processes may be childs of another ones! Use the swich --forest to see this.
You can also use the killall command to kill multiple processes with a single shot :) See the man for further info |
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