fedora 8 unknown process "exe"

[Joshua Andrews]

Hi

Just curious about a process that shows up in top as exe--it uses a fair 
amount of processor time and killing it does not seem to effect 
anything. I am wondering what it is-and where it is.

`ps auxwwf` does not list anything named exe.

Thanks

- Joshua

[Brian Pepple]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 12:33 -0800, Joshua Andrews wrote:
> Just curious about a process that shows up in top as exe--it uses a fair 
> amount of processor time and killing it does not seem to effect 
> anything. I am wondering what it is-and where it is.
>
> `ps auxwwf` does not list anything named exe.

It's Pulse Audio.

/B

[Joshua Andrews]

Brian Pepple wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 12:33 -0800, Joshua Andrews wrote:
> > Just curious about a process that shows up in top as exe--it uses a fair 
> > amount of processor time and killing it does not seem to effect 
> > anything. I am wondering what it is-and where it is.
> >
> > `ps auxwwf` does not list anything named exe.
>
> It's Pulse Audio.
>
> /B

Weird!

I guess I don't have a clue about pulse audio, I am running KDE desktop 
and xmms did not seem phased at all by killing the process.

I wonder what starts the process since it seems to be just using energy 
for nothing.

Thanks

- Joshua

[Brian Pepple]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:01 -0800, Joshua Andrews wrote:
> Brian Pepple wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 12:33 -0800, Joshua Andrews wrote:
> > > Just curious about a process that shows up in top as exe--it uses a fair 
> > > amount of processor time and killing it does not seem to effect 
> > > anything. I am wondering what it is-and where it is.
> > >
> > > `ps auxwwf` does not list anything named exe.
> >
> > It's Pulse Audio.
> >
>
> Weird!
>
> I guess I don't have a clue about pulse audio, I am running KDE desktop 
> and xmms did not seem phased at all by killing the process.

I believe xmms uses the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, so when you kill pulse
it just uses alsa.
> I wonder what starts the process since it seems to be just using energy 
> for nothing.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RexDieter/PulseAudioKDE

/B

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 03 January 2008, Joshua Andrews wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just curious about a process that shows up in top as exe--it uses a fair
> amount of processor time and killing it does not seem to effect
> anything. I am wondering what it is-and where it is.
>
> `ps auxwwf` does not list anything named exe.
>
> Thanks
> Joshua

Sounds odd to me, there is no such process running on the x86_64 I just 
installed yesterday morning.