Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:09:04 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: "R. Lahaye" <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: top command: STATE info unclear Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0108090001340.57646-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <3B7215A5.32D689F9@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, R. Lahaye wrote:
:
:Hi,
:
:On my FreeBSD 4.3 machine, I try to understand the STATE column.
:The 'man top' says somewhere:
:
: [...]
: STATE is the current state (one of "sleep", "WAIT", "run",
: "idl", "zomb", or "stop")
: [...]
:
:However, this does not at all match with the actual states in the
:STATE column of the 'top' command:
:
: RUN, select, mfsidl, nanslp, piperd, wait, ttyin, poll
Meaning in the run state, in select(2), (you sure this one isn't nfsidl,
meaning waiting on NFS), nanosleeping, waiting to read from a pipe, in wait
(for highspeed I/O, that is, a disk, I think), waiting on tty input, in
poll(2), respectivly. There are others, as well.
:
:
:Apparently the man pages of the 'top' command are not synchronized with
:the actual command. How can I find out what the STATE items mean?
Someone should fix that, probably.
:
:
:For example: top says that I have one zombie process, but I can't find
:out in the STATE column which process is zombie.
:
Use ps(1).
ps auxww | awk '{if ($8 == "Z") print $0}'
Should tell you. This prints things where teh STAT collum is equal to Z,
meaning the process is a zombie.
--
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