Any way to see what started this process and why?
$ ps -e
PID TTY TIME CMD
...
41 ?? 0:00.55 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.
macmac-osx-serverpython
Any way to see what started this process and why?
$ ps -e
PID TTY TIME CMD
...
41 ?? 0:00.55 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.
Best Answer
Use
ps -efww
. The-f
option adds aPPID
that will tell you the parent process ID ("what started this process"). The-ww
options remove all line length restrictions so that you can see the entire command which might tell you "why". I suspect that "Python.app" was truncated and that it's a python script of some sort running.Another technique would be to use
sudo lsof -p 41
to see what files that process has open. This might tell you enough to determine the purpose.A final technique to consider would be
sudo dtruss -p 41
to trace the activity of the program (see what it's doing).