Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca!mroussel From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: What do the first ten processes do? Message-ID: <1990Dec17.180615.14102@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> Date: 17 Dec 90 18:06:15 GMT References: <1990Dec14.192114.5310@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <4e997ec6.1bc5b@pisa.ifs.umich.edu> Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto Lines: 25 In article hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes: >In article <4e997ec6.1bc5b@pisa.ifs.umich.edu> rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim >Rees) writes: > > Domain/OS has a pair of processes, the purifiers (pids 3 & 4), that > progressively write dirty objects to disk. I think they only write pages > from unlocked objects. So the combination of the purifiers and sync should > be sufficient. > >This is interesting. I have always wondered what those first ten >processes are there for: [listing of those 10 first processes deleted] >I understand #1 and #2, of course (init even has a man page), and now >Jim has explained #3 and #4. Could anybody explain the remainder? >No, I don't think I need to know. Just being curious, that's all. I'm curious too. Why two purifier processes? They both have the same name; are they invoked differently and thus carry out different functions? Marc R. Roussel mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca