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RE: what is kproc?

From: Gogala, Mladen <MGogala_at_oxhp.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 09:53:05 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0059AF1F.20030516095305@fatcity.com>


In some other time and on some other system, it used to be known as NULL process.
The system used to be known as Very Mighty System, ver 4.x  

Mladen Gogala
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Saira

This is set of kernel processes this process collects system wait and idle time and represents it in the ps CPU fields Process Owner

Indy Johal

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I have not come across this process in my short life as a junior DBA. What is this process?

Thank you in advance.

$ ps -fu oracle |grep kproc

 oracle  26080      1   0   Apr 05      - 114:24 kproc
 oracle  27630      1   0   Apr 05      - 115:29 kproc
 oracle  28906      1   3   Apr 05      - 114:13 kproc
 oracle  32840      1   2   Apr 05      - 116:06 kproc
 oracle  34632      1   0   Apr 05      - 114:39 kproc
 oracle  35630      1   0   Apr 05      - 114:23 kproc
 oracle  36164      1   0   Apr 05      - 115:32 kproc
 oracle  36422      1   0   Apr 05      - 116:02 kproc
 oracle  37452      1   0   Apr 05      - 115:50 kproc
 oracle  38464      1   0   Apr 05      - 114:07 kproc
 oracle  39008      1   0   Apr 05      - 115:35 kproc
 oracle  39486      1   0   Apr 05      - 116:00 kproc
 oracle  40250      1   0   Apr 05      - 114:07 kproc
 oracle  40508      1   0   Apr 05      - 115:52 kproc
 oracle  40766      1   0   Apr 05      - 114:29 kproc
 oracle  41024      1   0   Apr 05      - 117:13 kproc
 oracle  41282      1   0   Apr 05      - 114:59 kproc
 oracle  41540      1   0   Apr 05      - 115:51 kproc
 oracle  41798      1   0   Apr 05      - 113:49 kproc
 oracle  42056      1   0   Apr 05      - 115:13 kproc

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