On 10/7/2014 3:29 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
here's the result of your PS command, but I personally do not find it to be the least bit enlightening. perhaps you will...:
# ps -fwp 26358 UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 26358 2 0 Oct04 ? 00:01:14 [jbd2/sdd1-8]
processes in [] are system processes or kernel threads, I believe. not sure what the significance of jbd2 is.... hmm, google suggests its the journaling block device, used for journaled versions of extfs (ext3, ext4) ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_block_device