Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:50:51 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Marc Wandschneider <marcw@lanfear.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: STATE="piperd" Message-ID: <20000221125051.S21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <000001bf7ca7$ca98fdf0$0300000a@katana>; from marcw@lanfear.com on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:11:08PM -0800 References: <000001bf7ca7$ca98fdf0$0300000a@katana>
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* Marc Wandschneider <marcw@lanfear.com> [000221 12:45] wrote: > > > moo! > > i'm running ApplixWare on my FreeBSD 3.3 machine, and when I run the core > "applix" program, 'top' always reports its state as "piperd". > > I've been rummaging through source, but can't seem to find out what this > means ... What's up with the process? Everything else about it seems pretty > normal ... Um, does applix work? Or is it hanging? process states like 'piperd' are setup when the process is sleeping, waiting for something to happen, see sys/kern/sys_pipe.c line 433: /usr/src/sys % grep -n piperd */* kern/sys_pipe.c:433: if ((error = tsleep(rpipe, PRIBIO|PCATCH, "piperd", 0)) == 0) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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