From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 1 13:58:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBEC816A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:58:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9E043D46 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:58:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id i81Dw3di029075 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:58:03 +0300 Message-Id: <200409011358.i81Dw3di029075@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 1 Sep 04 16:58:03 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 1 Sep 04 16:57:40 +0300 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:57:36 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal Subject: top: processes in square brackets X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:58:05 -0000 Hello! What does it mean when some processes appear in square brackets in top's output, like this: PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 184 mysql -14 0 133M 30332K inode 3:37 3.81% 3.81% mysqld 547 www 2 0 203M 16664K poll 0:06 1.59% 1.56% java 504 www 2 0 23688K 6344K poll 0:00 1.69% 0.44% httpd 315 www 2 0 23728K 0K poll 0:00 1.75% 0.24% 400 www 2 0 23684K 0K poll 0:00 1.75% 0.24% I couldn't find this info in the man pages of my FreeBSD 4.9 server -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegboawd awound?