From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 1 20:44:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E3716A4DF for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:44:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A9143D45 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:44:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k71Kibmt044720; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:44:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:44:37 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: DAve Message-ID: <20060801204437.GG63872@dan.emsphone.com> References: <44CF8361.2090004@pixelhammer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44CF8361.2090004@pixelhammer.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: piperd in top X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:44:38 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 01), DAve said: > We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've been > watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough. But > looking at top I am seeing a lot of processes with state of piperd. Piperd means the process is waiting on a read from a pipe. You can use lsof to determine what process is at the other end of the pipe (run lsof, find your process, find the PIPE fd, then find the other process with the same 0xXXXXXXXX value). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com