Thanks Brandon & Andreas! Explains it perfectly. -------------------------------------------------------- This transmission may contain confidential, proprietary, or privileged information which is intended solely for use by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, copying or distribution of this transmission or its attachments is strictly prohibited. In addition, unauthorized access to this transmission may violate federal or State law, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1985. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the transmission and its attachments. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allen, Brandon Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:41 PM To: a.piesk@xxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) Subject: RE: Strange processes on Aix 5.2 Also, the reason you don't see it with "ps -ef" is that ps doesn't show kernel processes by default - you have to specify the "-k" flag, e.g.: /opt/oracle ->ps -efk|grep wait root 8196 0 0 Nov 11 - 720:31 wait root 53274 0 0 Nov 11 - 3628:35 wait root 57372 0 0 Nov 11 - 554:40 wait root 61470 0 0 Nov 11 - 1883:24 wait root 65568 0 0 Nov 11 - 212:44 wait root 69666 0 0 Nov 11 - 357:59 wait root 73764 0 0 Nov 11 - 86:11 wait root 77862 0 0 Nov 11 - 91:05 wait oracle 3792908 5025884 0 09:39:40 pts/0 0:00 grep wait Regards, Brandon Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l