From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Normally the 8th field of the output from ps -ef is the process name. After a while for some processes, the name disappears and is replaced by the owner of the process. For example, we have an oracle process called ora_arc0_SC_PRD_2 . When oracle is first started, ps shows this name fine. After a while (not sure how long, probably a few days), ps shows [oracle] instead. If I cat /proc/PID/cmdline and /proc/PID/environ , they appear to be empty. This problem is annoying if you're trying to monitor processes with Big Brother and can be confusing. Thanks. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start oracle 2. wait a while...... 3. Actual Results: As described in description Expected Results: ps should always show process name [tdavis@scprdb1 tdavis]$ ps -ef | grep ora oracle 933 1 0 Jan28 ? 00:00:11 ora_pmon_SC_PRD_2 oracle 935 1 0 Jan28 ? 00:00:12 [oracle] oracle 939 1 0 Jan28 ? 00:00:12 ora_lgwr_SC_PRD_2 oracle 946 1 0 Jan28 ? 00:00:32 ora_ckpt_SC_PRD_2 oracle 949 1 0 Jan28 ? 00:00:03 ora_smon_SC_PRD_2 oracle 951 1 0 Jan28 ? 00:00:00 ora_reco_SC_PRD_2 oracle 953 1 0 Jan28 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] Oracle version is 8.1.6
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