Process list information?

[simonvlc]

Hi all,

anyone knows one page when you can find information of all the kubuntu processes that run on a desktop kubuntu distribution? I looked at the man pages, but only half of them gets listed.

Thanks in advance, Simon.

[Fenyx]

Re: Process list information?

Google can be very helpful in situations like this. You can also ask about some of them in here and we can try to answer them.

[monte48lowes]

Re: Process list information?

Are you looking for a list of what normally runs? Or do you want to know what is currently running?

For the second: kmenu>System>kSysGuard

Mike

[simonvlc]

Re: Process list information?

Thanks both.

I want a description of each process that runs on top or ksysguard. Half of them have their man pages, but not all. Same happens with google.

Here are some of the proccesses I´m talking about.

events
khelper
kthread
kblockd
khpsbpkt
khubd
knodemgrd_0
...

The better would be a page where people could find the description of unix proccesses, but I didn´t found no one.

Regards, Simon.

[monte48lowes]

Re: Process list information?

khelper - It is a kernel thread which is used for making calls out to userspace
applications from within the kernel.
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Is a kthread effectively just a
> process always running in kernel mode ?

That is exactly what a kthread is.
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kblockd is a kernel thread, essentially, it periodically activetes the block device drivers.
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khubd - usb_hub_init(): creates a kernel daemon thread named khubd
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knodemgrd - (bus management and protocol driver dispatcher)

These all appear to be basic level processes. I am sure you found most of this information already. The only time I could think of needing to know all of this would be for a LFS (Linux from Scratch) system.

Mike

[simonvlc]

Re: Process list information?

khelper - It is a kernel thread which is used for making calls out to userspace
applications from within the kernel.
------------------------------------------------------
Is a kthread effectively just a
> process always running in kernel mode ?

That is exactly what a kthread is.
------------------------------------------------------
kblockd is a kernel thread, essentially, it periodically activetes the block device drivers.
------------------------------------------------------
khubd - usb_hub_init(): creates a kernel daemon thread named khubd
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knodemgrd - (bus management and protocol driver dispatcher)

These all appear to be basic level processes. I am sure you found most of this information already. The only time I could think of needing to know all of this would be for a LFS (Linux from Scratch) system.

Mike

Thank you very much Mike.

I´m new to kubuntu, and I only want to have a reference of all the proccesses that run on my system. Here are the ones which I didn´t find an answer.

pdflush
aio
kseriod
khpsbpkt
kjournald
shpchpd_event
kgameportd
hpiod
krfcommd
kdm
klauncher
gam_server
artsd
kaccess
kwrapper
ksmserver
kwin
kdesktop
kicker
klipper
kbluetoothd
adept_notifier
knotify
kiofile

Regards, Simon.

[monte48lowes]

Re: Process list information?

Many of the basic unix processes and programs have acronymonous names (they are really acronyms, or something close) so they make some sense... at least to someone.

Mike

[Fenyx]

Re: Process list information?

pdflush
aio
kseriod
khpsbpkt
kjournald
shpchpd_event
kgameportd
hpiod
krfcommd
kdm
klauncher
gam_server
artsd
kaccess
kwrapper
ksmserver
kwin
kdesktop
kicker
klipper
kbluetoothd
adept_notifier
knotify
kiofile

Regards, Simon.

kdm - the KDE Display Manager, responsible for managing sessions and starting X. If you stop this, KDE and X abruptly stop too.

artsd - the aRts daemon. aRts manages system sounds (and some media apps) in KDE.

kwin - the KDE Window Manager. Manages, controls, and displays windows and window borders.

kdesktop - KDE desktop daemon, an essential KDE process which keeps everything running together.

kicker - this is the KDE Panel, that bar you see at the bottom, similar to Windows' taskbar.

klipper - KDE clipboard program

kbluetoothd - KDE Bluetooth daemon, handles bluetooth devices

adept_notifier - Adept Notification program. Displays a system tray notification icon if you have updates available for download.

knotify - KDE Notification program. Handles all system notifications, popups, etc.

Most of the processes that start with a 'k' are KDE processes, programs or daemons. You can easily search them in Google, usually by adding a "kde" before the name, like "kde klauncher". I found this page using that method:

http://docs.kde.org/userguide/background-processes.html

[simonvlc]

Re: Process list information?

Thanks a lot Jucato. I would try with KDE in front.

Regards, Simon.