Re: htop vs ps

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:25:31 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> Camaleón wrote:
 
>> You can also make use of the switches of "htop" like "s" to strace the
>> misterious process :-?
>> 
>> 
> I asked on the apcupsd mailing list and it is normal for apcupsd to show
> that extra PID. Mysql does the same: htop shows 13 PID's and 'ps -Al'
> shows 2!
> 
> But noone said 'why' that is so...

Well, according to "man ps" -section "notes"- this utility reads the 
processes listed under /proc so if there is no such a process in there, 
"ps" will not list it.

Question then is what kind of PID is listing htop :-?

(searching...)

Oh, okay :-)

Why does htop show lots of apache2 processes by ps aux doesn't?
http://serverfault.com/questions/24198/why-does-htop-show-lots-of-apache2-processes-by-ps-aux-doesnt

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón