Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:44:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Nestor Wheelock <nestor@mingus.eyedotmind.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: just what does kserel mean? Message-ID: <20060911224434.GA58979@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20060911221120.K2564@mingus.eyedotmind.com> References: <20060911221120.K2564@mingus.eyedotmind.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 11), Nestor Wheelock said: > I have searched all over the net for a good definition of what the top > state, "kserel" means. When I run mysql this is the state in which it > runs. > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > 2117 mysql 17 20 0 323M 59080K kserel 0 0:02 0.00% mysqld That's just a wait state used inside libkse threads meaning a thread is waiting for something to do. Note that for a threaded program, the STATE seen by top is that of only one thread owned by the process. Press 'H' to see each thread on its own line. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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