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 -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast