Personally, I'd rather ps and top refrain from displaying kernel
processes unless specifically requested.  I don't recall either AIX or
Solaris show kernel processes by default in ps.

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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
<[email protected]> wrote:
> As an AMD-er, Paul Krizak sounds rightly proud of the new Opteron 6000
> "Magny-Cours" 12-core processors supported by the new RHEL5.5. However,
> it occurs to me there are quite a few old-time one-dimensional GNU
> utilities that are becoming cumbersome and largely obsolete in the face
> of accelerating numbers of cores.
>
> One example that comes immediately to mind is 'top'. Here at the house
> my three-years-old server has a pair of dual-core Opterons. Many of
> top's entries appear in groups of four xxxx/0 thru xxxx/3, filling up
> the visible page with repetitive entries. Servers with up to 48 cores
> are going to need a top-ng that sorts processes by core and displays
> them, perhaps, in multiple-tab format with one tab for each core.
>
> Just something to be thinking about...
>
> --Doc Savage
>  Fairview Heights, IL
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