From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 19:53:35 2002 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 9540337B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4308D43E42 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:53:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7080B28BA2 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:53:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:53:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: man top (fwd) Message-ID: <20020911225234.L38202-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does anyone know what the STATE "physst" is, or how to look up all codes?? -Peter ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Leftwich To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: man top Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:32:07 -0700 (PDT) man top (*chuckle*) Sounds like Confuscius as a bedroom instructor! My question is about `man top` - the part that says "STATE is the current state (one of "sleep", "WAIT", "run", "idl", "zomb", or "stop")" - I am running `dd -bs 131072 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1` to return a HDD to factory clean condition and in `top` the STATE says "physst." What's that? Also, in an effort to learn more and make sure I am learning properly... if I run top and see that a task that I want to run faster has a PRI of -6 and I renice it to -20, is that effective? I guess I am confused by PRI and NICE, they are different values and PRI doesn't seem changeable. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message