Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:32:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: man top Message-ID: <20020906202755.Y373-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com>
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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
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