So I noticed recently when I ran ps -edalf on my mac that there were a ton of processes that look like this:
1926579176 48133 1 4004 0 31 0 2474764 5384 - S 0 ?? 0:00.01 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
1926579176 48135 48130 4004 0 31 0 3282368 81012 - S 0 ?? 0:08.09 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
1926579176 48155 48130 4004 0 31 0 3495356 122076 - S 0 ?? 0:10.81 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
1926579176 48156 48130 4004 0 31 0 3360596 40364 - S 0 ?? 0:00.42 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
1926579176 48157 48130 4004 0 31 0 3371632 60684 - S 0 ?? 0:08.00 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
1926579176 48158 48130 4004 0 31 0 3337084 37432 - S 0 ?? 0:00.33 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
1926579176 48159 48130 4004 0 31 0 3337596 37532 - S 0 ?? 0:00.34 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
1926579176 48160 48130 4004 0 31 0 3349400 50220 - S 0 ?? 0:02.28 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
1926579176 48161 48130 4004 0 31 0 3440948 89072 - S 0 ?? 0:34.86 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
1926579176 48162 48130 4004 0 31 0 3360112 42064 - S 0 ?? 0:00.41 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
1926579176 48164 48130 4004 0 31 0 3345848 40988 - S 0 ?? 0:00.74 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
1926579176 48165 48130 4004 0 31 0 3404180 65000 - S 0 ?? 0:07.73 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
1926579176 48166 48130 4004 0 31 0 3423560 76960 - S 0 ?? 0:08.78 /Applications/Go 11:14AM
I wondered what on earth these were. They go away when I close Chrome. It turns out that the ps command trims down the name of the executable to "/Applications/Go" Not so helpful! I tried a variation on the ps command
pf -edalfc
and saw:
1926579176 48135 48130 4004 0 49 0 3269780 100156 - S 0 ?? 0:55.86 Google Chrome He 11:14AM
1926579176 48155 48130 4004 0 31 0 3593696 105364 - S 0 ?? 0:40.40 Google Chrome He 11:14AM
1926579176 48156 48130 4004 0 31 0 3389752 59384 - S 0 ?? 0:05.25 Google Chrome He 11:14AM
1926579176 48157 48130 4004 0 31 0 3427316 106300 - S 0 ?? 0:55.61 Google Chrome He 11:14AM
1926579176 48158 48130 4004 0 31 0 3336516 36956 - S 0 ?? 0:00.55 Google Chrome He 11:14AM
1926579176 48159 48130 4004 0 31 0 3337028 37152 - S 0 ?? 0:00.55 Google Chrome He 11:14AM
That was much more helpful. I couldn't find anything about this on the ole interweb so I thought I'd document it quickly.
enjoy
Selwyn