Two strange processes

Clay Weber claydoh at midmaine.com
Tue Jan 12 18:40:14 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 12 January 2010 12:12:11 pm Muzer wrote:
> 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.

on all 3 of my machines, dhclient is always running. From the manpage  :

The  DHCP client will normally run in the foreground until it
       has configured an interface, and then will revert to  running
       in the background.


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