From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 20:32: 2 2002 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 2815D37B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:31:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.san.rr.com (smtp2.san.rr.com [24.25.195.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F5243E3B for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:31:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from 24-161-168-225.san.rr.com (24-161-168-225.san.rr.com [24.161.168.225]) by smtp2.san.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g873Vvr15953 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:32:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: root@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: man top Message-ID: <20020906202755.Y373-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG man top (*chuckle*) Sounds like Confuscius as a bedroom instructor! My question is about `man top` - the part that says "STATE is the current state (one of "sleep", "WAIT", "run", "idl", "zomb", or "stop")" - I am running `dd -bs 131072 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1` to return a HDD to factory clean condition and in `top` the STATE says "physst." What's that? Also, in an effort to learn more and make sure I am learning properly... if I run top and see that a task that I want to run faster has a PRI of -6 and I renice it to -20, is that effective? I guess I am confused by PRI and NICE, they are different values and PRI doesn't seem changeable. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message