Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:28:59 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: zhaifeng@chinadns.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: about 'top' command Message-ID: <XFMail.001130202859.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <001401c05b42$3f162940$29010101@zhaifeng>
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On 01-Dec-00 zhaifeng@chinadns.com wrote: > In most UNIX system,if I you use command 'top',I will see status of > processes marked 'S','I','Z',and so on,these marks could be found in unix > manual---man,but in FreeBSD,the process is marked > 'sbwait','piperd','select',and so on,what do they mean? For a process in SSLEEP, top(1) displays the name of the sleep channel it is waiting on. Process states such as RUN are in upper case. Wait channels are always in lower case so you can tell them apart. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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