Re: kproc

From: Paul Bennett <spacey845_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 22:24:39 GMT
Message-ID: <93ineq$l0r$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

In article <7g176.839$B9.189051904_at_news.frii.net>, Nicholas Dronen <ndronen_at_io.frii.com> wrote:
> In comp.unix.aix Paul Bennett <spacey845_at_my-deja.com> wrote:
>

[snip]
> > about a dozen different kproc processes running, all owned by user
> > oracle and all started within a second of each other.
>

[snip]
>
> I would not be surprised if they were created by an Oracle
> kernel extension (pw-syscall . . . is that it?).
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick Dronen
>

Sounds fairly reasonable. Oracle does load a kernel extension, so it's as good an explanation as any. Just as long as it doesn't mean something nasty is afoot.

They disappear after the RS has been up a while, so they've stopped worrying me ... for now ...

Thanks,

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