From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 8 22:15:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.postech.ac.kr (mx1.postech.ac.kr [141.223.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0709337B401 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:15:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lahaye@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from users.sourceforge.net (surfion4.postech.ac.kr [141.223.126.84]) by mx1.postech.ac.kr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01862; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:16:57 +0900 (KST) Message-ID: <3B721C77.86EFC371@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:15:35 +0900 From: "R. Lahaye" Organization: Postech X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Scheidt Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: top command: STATE info unclear References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 David Scheidt wrote: > > :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 > > Meaning in the run state, in select(2), (you sure this one isn't nfsidl, > meaning waiting on NFS), nanosleeping, waiting to read from a pipe, in wait > (for highspeed I/O, that is, a disk, I think), waiting on tty input, in > poll(2), respectivly. There are others, as well. Thanks! I think the mfsidl is an mfs mount as I have defined in /etc/fstab: /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1b /tmp mfs rw,async,nosuid,nodev 0 0 Indeed, the top manpage needs updating. I'll try to email the responsible person for that. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message