From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 20:29:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2398037B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:29:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp246.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.246]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eB14SbC84865; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:28:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <001401c05b42$3f162940$29010101@zhaifeng> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:28:59 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: zhaifeng@chinadns.com Subject: RE: about 'top' command Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01-Dec-00 zhaifeng@chinadns.com wrote: > In most UNIX system,if I you use command 'top',I will see status of > processes marked 'S','I','Z',and so on,these marks could be found in unix > manual---man,but in FreeBSD,the process is marked > 'sbwait','piperd','select',and so on,what do they mean? For a process in SSLEEP, top(1) displays the name of the sleep channel it is waiting on. Process states such as RUN are in upper case. Wait channels are always in lower case so you can tell them apart. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message