From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 1 14:09:47 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 EB1B616A4D0 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:09:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC2F43D49 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:09:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i81E9geS064452; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:09:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:09:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Toomas Aas Message-ID: <20040901140941.GH33896@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200409011358.i81Dw3di029075@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200409011358.i81Dw3di029075@lv.raad.tartu.ee> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 14:09:48 -0000 In the last episode (Sep 01), Toomas Aas said: > 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% It means the process is completely swapped out to disk. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com