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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:53:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Subject:   man top (fwd)
Message-ID:  <20020911225234.L38202-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>

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Does anyone know what the STATE "physst" is, or how to look up all codes??
-Peter

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To: FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: man top
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:32:07 -0700 (PDT)

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


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