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prstat displays PROCESS/NLWP with /0 , but high USR and SYS cpu usage

807557Oct 31 2007 — edited Nov 1 2007
I'm running prstat on Sol 10u4 sparc and see from time to time one of more processes with high user and kernel cpu usage, The process name is just displayed as " /0". What is this ?
see sample snapshot below:

PID USERNAME USR SYS TRP TFL DFL LCK SLP LAT VCX ICX SCL SIG PROCESS/NLWP
18738 root 18 42 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 36 0.5 123 247 15K 0 sort/1
18728 root 10 30 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 59 0 361 16K 0 /0
18737 root 6.8 15 2.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 75 0.2 82 82 5K 0 awk/1
18731 root 5.2 12 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 80 1.5 68 0 5K 0 /0
18730 root 4.8 10 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 82 1.4 58 58 4K 0 /0
18736 root 4.4 10 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 84 0.1 63 0 4K 0 grep/1
18732 root 3.0 11 2.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 84 0 45 3K 0 head/1
18735 root 4.3 9.2 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 85 0.1 57 57 3K 0 grep/1
18729 root 4.3 8.7 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 84 1.3 103 51 3K 0 /0
18734 root 3.7 8.9 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 86 0.5 52 52 3K 0 grep/1
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