From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 9:27:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dev.nethouse.com (what.ifelse.org [208.171.40.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D832F37B417 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:27:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from btt@localhost) by dev.nethouse.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1LHMJ894995 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:22:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from btt) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:22:19 -0500 From: btt@nethouse.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Meaning of process states Message-ID: <20020221172219.GA94921@dev.nethouse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 Hi, Where can I find out what the various process states like: nanslp, poll, accept, and my favorite: piperd mean? I found this: http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=4752744&list=151 which mentions that top is showing the sleep/wait channel. What is a wait channel, and what differentiates one from the other? Thanks alot, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message