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Date:      Sun, 30 May 1999 09:50:44 -0700
From:      "Byron C. Servies" <bservies@Legato.COM>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nanslp?
Message-ID:  <199905301648.JAA26157@mail.Legato.COM>
In-Reply-To: <19990530164232.B30927@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

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On 5/30/1999 at 4:42 PM, nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (Nik Clayton)
wrote:

> How do,
> 
> What does the "nanslp" state in the top(1) output mean?  The man page
> doesn't list it, and grepping for "nanslp" in /usr/src/contrib/top/* 
> and /usr/src/usr.bin/top/* doesn't turn up anything.
> 
> The line from the display is;
> 
>     8307 nobody    10   1 13820K 12960K nanslp  25.1H  0.00%  0.00%
setiathome
> 
> as you can see, I'm running the SETI client, and this state occurred
> when my modem line was down (modem turned off) so it couldn't dial
> out.  I'm guessing it has something to do with that.
> 

It's probably 'nanosleep'; like the sleep() call, but mostly used in
multi-threaded applications.  If setiathome is still running, that is
probably it.

Byron




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