[X-Unix] TOP and processes

[David Gilden]

Greetings,

I ran 'Top'  and saw processes that I could not identify.
 
Could someone explain what 'aped' and 'ntpd' are for,
I was thinking that I might have some rouge spy wear or some
such crap on my system (OSX Tiger 10.4.10)


sample:
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86 Internet E   0.5%  7:21.99   8   147   219  9.23M  16.7M  20.2M   205M
274 ntpd         0.0%  0:00.32   1    11    18   176K   524K   312K  26.9M
259 Default Fo   0.0%  0:01.21   3   169   137  2.05M  11.3M  14.0M   192M
224 aped         0.0%  0:00.32   1    53    27   404K   816K  1.14M  27.3M
221 mdimport     0.
...snip....



Thanks!

Dave G.


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