[renpar61]

I was checking the process viewer and I suddenly saw user "nobody" running "find" and then "sort". Is this a system thing or is someone accessing my hard drive? I'm nervous...

[chris v]

It's a system thing.

CV

[renpar61]

Originally posted by chris v:
It's a system thing.

CV

thanks!

how about when user is "unknown", process name is a series of weird characters like "@#{(*&@@" and the CPU usage runs up to 700% (just for a couple of seconds and the disappear) ?
I had that a few times...

[chris v]

process viewer is just a GUI interpretation of top, which is more reliable, IMO.

In a terminal window, type top then hit return. processes are sorted by id#.

To sort by CPU usage, type top -u and hit enter.

To read all about it, type man top and hit enter.

CV

[Jerommeke]

nobody