Re: [CentOS] Running processes

On 03/08/12 5:20 PM, Robert Spangler wrote:

I was wondering if anyone could tell me why so many processes are started on my system? Here is a list of them. I am trying to figure out why they are running and if I can stop them. Thnx.

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 19:33 0:00 [migration/0] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN 19:33 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 19:33 0:00 [watchdog/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 19:33 0:00 [migration/1] .....

to add to whats already been said, the processes in [ ] are kernel helper threads, these are used by things like device drivers for IO processing that can't be done at an IRQ level.