Re: [HACKERS] 'idle' processes in v6.5?

> ... under a Linux system ...             ^^^^^

Ah, finally seen the light...
You didn't expect _that_ to go unnoticed, did you?

> 19130  p2 S    0:00 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -o -F -o /usr/local/pgsql/er
> 19416  p2 S    0:00 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres 127.0.0.1 nobody imp idle
> 19418  p2 S    0:00 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres 127.0.0.1 nobody imp idle
> 19425  p2 S    0:00 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres 127.0.0.1 nobody imp idle
> 21163  p2 S    0:00 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres 127.0.0.1 nobody imp idle
> 21288  p2 S    0:00 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres 127.0.0.1 nobody imp idle
> 21290  p2 S    0:00 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres 127.0.0.1 nobody imp idle
> 21303  p2 S    0:00 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres 127.0.0.1 nobody imp idle
> 21445  p2 S    0:00 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres 127.0.0.1 nobody imp idle
> yet nobody is using that system yet except me testing a couple of times...

Yes, "nobody" *is* using the system. You sure you don't have a web
server or something? Anything else running as "nobody"?
                    - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart                lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California