From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 11 22:14:21 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 154F116A412 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:14:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nestor@mingus.eyedotmind.com) Received: from mingus.eyedotmind.com (adsl-75-15-110-29.dsl.stlsmo.sbcglobal.net [75.15.110.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDAD443D7D for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:14:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nestor@mingus.eyedotmind.com) Received: by mingus.eyedotmind.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7478E28450; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:14:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mingus.eyedotmind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7186928410 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:14:06 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:14:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Nestor Wheelock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060911221120.K2564@mingus.eyedotmind.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: just what does kserel mean? 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: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:14:21 -0000 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 I'm a newbie with freebsd and am concerned that this might be some sort of problem since my installation of Mysql turned out to be rather challenging. Thanks, Nestor