midaemon has a long time running concerned about that

[WilliamSmith11]

Hi I am seeing my system here in colorado and I see that there is a process midaemon that seam to be running for a log time

I saw it by issuing the top command

TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND

? 1258 root -12 20 31264K 5288K run 1520:32 1.80 1.80 midaemon.

The PRI=-12
The TIME=1520:32

My two questions are
1> why the PRI=-12?
Is good , bad or I must not take care about that.

The TIME 1520:32 is in seconds?
In the man page for top I find out about TIME the following.
>Number of system and CPU seconds the
process has consumed.I am not so clear about what this means.

Thank you .

W.S

[Dennis Handly]

This is normal, as long as the %CPU time isn't large. That small % does add up if you keep the system up a long time.

>1> why the PRI=-12?

That is likely a signed char, so it is really 244?? What OS version do you have?

>The TIME 1520:32 is in seconds?

This is 1520 minutes, 32 seconds. I believe days have a "-" somewhere.

Searching the ITRC shows a few threads about midaemon:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1099407

[skt_skt]

15 ? 8665 root -16 20 123M 65916K run 963:20 2.43 2.43 midaemon

1 ? 14303 root -16 20 65820K 8504K run 664:42 0.61 0.61 midaemon

1520 shows the midaemon was up for that much time. the prioty is the system dafault. i am seeing it is -16 on my HP-UX 11.00,11.11 and 11.23 servers.