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wrldwzrd89
Aug 4, 2004, 04:15 PM
I was trying to diagnose the cause of a script problem in this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=82871) when I decided to check my Activity Monitor. I saw a strange process, with a process name of (null), using ~300 MB RAM and ~1 GB virtual memory (far more than any other process). It had 13 threads. I wasn't sure what it was, but I suspected it had something to do with my experimenting. I restarted the Mac and checked Activity Monitor again - the (null) process was gone. What I was trying to do was see if I could get the perl command-line program to execute a script (with a .pl extension) by Option+Command-dragging the script to the perl executable. I tried that twice, and nothing happened. Any ideas as to what was going on?



ChrisX
Nov 7, 2004, 10:17 AM
No worries, the (null) process is the Classic Environment (elsewhere referred to as TrueBlue Environment).
ChrisX

javabear90
Nov 7, 2004, 10:33 AM
I had that problem once, except it was taking up all of my extra processing power :eek: so I quit it...

yippy
Nov 7, 2004, 11:03 AM
Speaking of weird processes, I have two "automount" processes, both running as root. I would think you would only need one.

ChrisX
Nov 9, 2004, 10:13 AM
Those are definitely two separate processes. I have no idea why *two* are needed, though. Anyone?