From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 16:52:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 76C8C16A4E2 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:52:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: from ecluster5.tls.net (ecluster5.tls.net [65.196.224.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D529243DBA for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:51:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: (qmail 95365 invoked by uid 89); 2 Aug 2006 16:56:56 -0000 Received: from 204-8-13-106.bb.hrtc.net (HELO ?192.168.0.103?) (ldg%tls.net@204.8.13.106) by auth-ecluster5.tls.net with SMTP; 2 Aug 2006 16:56:56 -0000 Message-ID: <44D0D80A.2080703@pixelhammer.com> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:51:22 -0400 From: DAve User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44CF8361.2090004@pixelhammer.com> <20060801204437.GG63872@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20060801204437.GG63872@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: piperd in top X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:52:38 -0000 Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 01), DAve said: >> We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've been >> watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough. But >> looking at top I am seeing a lot of processes with state of piperd. > > Piperd means the process is waiting on a read from a pipe. You can use > lsof to determine what process is at the other end of the pipe (run > lsof, find your process, find the PIPE fd, then find the other process > with the same 0xXXXXXXXX value). > Excellent, thank you. May I ask where you found that info. I looked but came up empty. I'd like to know the meanings of some other states not mentioned in the man pages. Such as nanslp, *GIANT, kqread, etc. Thanks, DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.