Dnia 20-02-2008, śro o godzinie 10:40 -1000, Dave Burns pisze: > When I do ps -ef, I see a mysterious process: > > ps -ef|grep scsi_eh_5 > root 31004 11 0 09:29 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_5] > > How do I figure out what is really running, what rpm its from, etc.? > What do the brackets [...] indicate? "ps" prints brackets when process arguments are not available to read. This is typical for kernel threads. scsi_eh_5 is a kernel thread, a SCSI Error Handler. It is spawned for each SCSI host in computer (there should be EH thread for each /sys/class/scsi_host/* ) > I suspect this has to do with a USB drive I have plugged in (because I > have no scsi anything). Probably yes. USB Mass Storage uses various SCSI command sets. Just like SATA, FC. -- Tomasz Torcz