[Info-vax] Stupid question of the day, re: OpenVMS process names

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <r4g5u3$8un$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> Pragmatically, process names are best considered nice labels for the 
> SHOW SYSTEM display.
> 
> Process names are something I'd avoid for most other uses.
> 
> They're a less-than-entirely-robust means of target identification, 
> when used for process management.

With many users and/or applications on a cluster, putting the username 
and/or the application name (together with a number, to make it unique) 
in the process name can make it easier to identify a process which is 
causing a problem for others.