Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:51:22 -0400 From: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: piperd in top Message-ID: <44D0D80A.2080703@pixelhammer.com> In-Reply-To: <20060801204437.GG63872@dan.emsphone.com> References: <44CF8361.2090004@pixelhammer.com> <20060801204437.GG63872@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > 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). > Excellent, thank you. May I ask where you found that info. I looked but came up empty. I'd like to know the meanings of some other states not mentioned in the man pages. Such as nanslp, *GIANT, kqread, etc. Thanks, DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.
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