System Process Summary Information
Both Oracle Solaris 10 and Oracle Solaris 11 include some system processes that perform a
specific task, but typically do not require any administration, such as those that are listed in the
following table.
Table 8-3 System Processes That Require No Administration
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fsflush
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System daemon that flushes pages to disk
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init
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Initial system process that starts and restarts other processes and SMF components
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intrd
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System process that monitors and balances system load due to interrupts
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kmem_task
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System process that monitors memory cache sizes
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pageout
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System process that controls memory paging to disk
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sched
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System process that is responsible for OS scheduling and process swapping
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vm_tasks
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System process with one thread per processor that balances and distributes virtual memory
related workloads across CPUs for better performance.
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zpool-pool-name
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System process for each ZFS storage pool containing the I/O taskq threads
for the associated pool
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