Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:37:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com> Cc: "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 'top' output Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808141536200.13156-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35D49C98.80CD65C6@graphnet.com>
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > Having recently set up innd on 2.2.7 and gotten over that horrible new > hard drive stuff (thanks all!) we decided to move the machine to a more > reliable segment on the network. After this is done and configured > everything works fine. Except INN, of course. It doesn't receive any > articles. Anyway, I thought for a while that it was an INN problem until > I ran top and saw this: > > 184 news 2 0 5900K 1636K select 0:00 0% 0% innd > ^^^^^^ > | > may question is about that -/ > > What does state "select" mean? How do I get it to its normal state? That is a normal state. Select() is a system call that checks a set of file descriptors for data; basically, it's waiting for input. Think you could shorten your .sig a bit? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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