iPhone 3G Processes

[Zman-iPhone]

Can you view iPhone processes? or port the app SysInfo to 2.1?

thanks guys

[remf]

Get top from Cydia

Then type top in Terminal

It'll list the processes.

[Zman-iPhone]

can you kill, etc certain ones?

[remf]

Simply find the PID for the process you want to kill

Then type kill PID xxx in Terminal

xxx being the PID # listed in top

[cricketlang]

yup yup yup. that will do it. sysinfo was better but this does work.

[Zman-iPhone]

ya its a process viewer nonetheless. thank you guys for your help

btw, when a process is a 'batch' process, what are those?

[cricketlang]

im pretty sure that means its like a process tree. kinda like in windows when you can end a process or end a process tree. i may be wrong but i think thats it

[Zman-iPhone]

ok ya man thanks for the info. do you know what happens when you kill processes such as SCHelper, MobilePhon, BASH*** (was the one i meant earlier instead of BATCH***)????

[cricketlang]

im not too familiar with those services. i think schelper stands for springboard crash helper for like when the springboard crashes (probably when mobile substrate boots into safe mode or something) mobilephon sounds like a pretty legit process so i wouldnt kill that.

[Zman-iPhone]

ya i remember i think i killed once before with kill me and the phone rebooted or something

[minig]

wich processes can i kill i have quite a few and not sure which ones are safe to remove any help would be appreciated i have

69 mobile phone do not delete
62 springboard do not delete
61 mediaserverd not sure
32 fairplayd not sure
31 iapd not sure
28 lockdownd not sure
27 update not sure
25 sbsettingsd do not delete
24 Pdanet do not delete
23 MxT2d do not delete
18 Bt server do not delete
17 Commcenter no sure
15 configd not sure
14 syslogd not sure
13 notifyd not sure
12 mDNSresponder not sure
1 Launch not sure
0 Kernel_task not sure


which ones should i remove i dont wana mess phone up as i dont want to restore thanks.

[tatum]

You don't need top. Plus top only lists the TOP running processes.

# ps -fea|more

This will list every process running on your phone.

wich processes can i kill i have quite a few and not sure which ones are safe to remove any help would be appreciated i have

69 mobile phone do not delete
62 springboard do not delete
61 mediaserverd not sure - Sound Mixer - do not kill
32 fairplayd not sure - App DRM - do not kill
31 iapd not sure - Third party device compatability daemon - do not kill
28 lockdownd not sure - Verifies activation - do not kill
27 update not sure - App version tracking - do not kill
25 sbsettingsd do not delete
24 Pdanet do not delete
23 MxT2d do not delete
18 Bt server do not delete
17 Commcenter no sure - cellular communications - do not kill
15 configd not sure - Maintains OS configuration data - do not kill
14 syslogd not sure - System logger - Prob ok to kill, but I would not recommend
13 notifyd not sure - Process state notifier - do not kill
12 mDNSresponder not sure - Auto discovery process for IP-based devices - do not kill
1 Launch not sure - process for starting/stopping daemons - do not kill
0 Kernel_task not sure - never kill anything with "kernel" involved. This is your core OS kernel


which ones should i remove i dont wana mess phone up as i dont want to restore thanks.

Please see above notations.

[themick50]

I have two configd files in my list of processes. I saw this after I attempted to install Veency program but got errors when trying to do this and then after I removed it, I noticed 2 running - should I attempt to kill one or remove one if possible?