kproc

From: Hello <abc_at_abc.com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 14:40:43 +0800
Message-ID: <3ce899b8@newsgate.hknet.com>

What does the process called kproc means? It always use many CPU usage.
I read some doc which called it kernel's idle process. It is normal even it uses a lot of CPU usage?

PID TTY STAT TIME PGIN SIZE RSS LIM TSIZ TRS %CPU %MEM COMMAND

     0      - A     3:35    7    12     10484    xx     0 10472          0.0
0.0     swapper
     1      - A     1:30  178   716   400 32768    26    32            0.0
0.0     /etc/init
   516      - A    16959:58    0     12 10484    xx     0 10472     24.5
0.0     kproc
   774      - A    30126:31    0     12 10484    xx     0 10472     43.5
0.0     kproc
  1032      - A     3:41    0    12   10480    xx     0 10472          0.0
0.0     kproc
  1290      - A     0:08  106    16  10488    xx     0 10472          0.0
0.0     kproc
  1548      - A    20:58    0    64   10528    xx     0 10472          0.0
0.0     kproc
  1806      - A     0:02    2    16    10488    xx     0 10472          0.0
0.0     kproc

Received on Mon May 20 2002 - 01:40:43 CDT