ps command - revisited

[Alan Dobkin]

--On Wednesday, April 10, 2002 2:39 PM +1000 Robert Collins
<robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> wrote:

>> > What is the 'System process'?
>> 
>> Look at the output from the Task Manager.
> 
> Sure, there's no 'System process'. Do you mean the 
> 'System Idle process' aka the scheduler?
> 
> Rob

No, it's a separate process.  According to Microsoft, "Most 
system kernel-mode threads run as the System process."  See:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q263/2/01.asp

It may not appear in Windows OSes other than 2000.

$ ps -W
      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
        8       0       0          8    ?    0 15:24:48 *** unknown ***

D:\>tlist /t
System Process (0)
System (8)

D:\>pulist
Process           PID  User
Idle              0
System            8

D:\>pslist
Name         Pid Pri Thd  Hnd    Mem     User Time   Kernel Time
Idle           0   0   1    0     16   0:00:00.000 482:15:09.042
System         8   8  35  199     28   0:00:00.000   1:40:49.048

Alan

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