From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 14 15:37:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02699 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:37:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02615 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:37:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA25058; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:37:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Roman Katsnelson cc: "q's" Subject: Re: 'top' output In-Reply-To: <35D49C98.80CD65C6@graphnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > Having recently set up innd on 2.2.7 and gotten over that horrible new > hard drive stuff (thanks all!) we decided to move the machine to a more > reliable segment on the network. After this is done and configured > everything works fine. Except INN, of course. It doesn't receive any > articles. Anyway, I thought for a while that it was an INN problem until > I ran top and saw this: > > 184 news 2 0 5900K 1636K select 0:00 0% 0% innd > ^^^^^^ > | > may question is about that -/ > > What does state "select" mean? How do I get it to its normal state? That is a normal state. Select() is a system call that checks a set of file descriptors for data; basically, it's waiting for input. Think you could shorten your .sig a bit? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message