On 19/09/12 18:34:58, andrea crotti wrote: > 2012/9/19 Hans Mulder <han...@xs4all.nl>: >> Yes: using "top" is an observation problem. >> >> "Top", as the name suggests, shows only the most active processes. > > Sure but "ls -lR /" is a very active process if you try to run it..
Not necessarily: >> It's quite possible that your 'ls' process is not active because >> it's waiting for your Python process to read some data from the pipe. Hope this helps, -- HansM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list