Two strange processes

[Muzer]

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Georgi Kourtev wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Today I found something unusual for me in the System Activity list.
> 
> 1. dhclient process (don't have idea what is this) that is owned by root and 
> is a zombie in terms of CPU usage.
> 2. init, also owned by root (don't have idea what is this either), that is 
> stopped.
> 
> Does anyone knows whether this is normal behaviour?  It seems to me that this 
> was not the case some time ago.  BTW the status of these two does not change 
> after reboot.
> 
> Thanks.
> gk
> 
> 

DHClient is the thing in charge of getting an IP address via DHCP, but
that should only run once and exit AFAIK - don't know why it's still
running.

Init is the first process that runs, it controls the boot and shutdown
procedures and is the parent of all processes. If you kill this (which I
don't think is possible) your kernel will panic.


Muzer.

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