Re: [gentoo-user] ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

[Stroller]

On 7 Nov 2009, at 10:01, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

> On Samstag 07 November 2009, Stroller wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have just found a process called "pegasus" running on my machine.
>> Does anyone know what it is, please?
>>
>> # ps -e | grep peg
>>   816 ?        00:00:00 pegasus
>> #
>>
>> A Google suggested I might be able to find it's path thusly:
>> # ps -e -o pid,args | grep peg
>>   816 [pegasus]
>> 13927 grep --colour=auto peg
>> #
>>
>> But as you  can see, no joy. What do the [square brackets] mean,
>> please?
>
> afaik it is a kernel process.

Yes, on a second look I find other processes bracketed similarly -  
e.g. rt2500pci and reiserfs.

I'd love to know what the name of the kernel module is so I can unload  
it:

$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i pegasus
CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS=y
$

Stroller.