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Hi,

On my FreeBSD 4.3 machine, I try to understand the STATE column.
The 'man top' says somewhere:

    [...]
    STATE is the current state (one of "sleep", "WAIT", "run",
    "idl", "zomb", or "stop")
    [...]

However, this does not at all match with the actual states in the
STATE column of the 'top' command:

    RUN, select, mfsidl, nanslp, piperd, wait, ttyin, poll


Apparently the man pages of the 'top' command are not synchronized with
the actual command. How can I find out what the STATE items mean?


For example: top says that I have one zombie process, but I can't find
out in the STATE column which process is zombie.

Any help appreciated!

Thanks,
Rob.

PS: please send a reply also to me personally, since I am not member of
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