05-04-2015
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Originally Posted by
jim mcnamara
The ? means the process is not connected to a controlling terminal.
Since computers are very fast and ps has limited number of significant digits, some small values are rounded down to 0.00.
For example a process could have .004 seconds of actual cpu usage, which would display as 0.00 Any process that shows in ps has to have used at least a tiny bit of cpu to have been created.
Do you have a problem you are trying to solve?
yes i have a problem.(I started playing around with PS becasue of the below issue). Can you please suggest an alternative method for 'disown' command as its not supported in my HP-UX
Korn Shell script in stopped state while running in background
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