top: processes in square brackets

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Sep 01), Toomas Aas said:
> Hello!
> 
> What does it mean when some processes appear in square brackets in 
> top's output, like this:
> 
>   PID USERNAME     PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>   184 mysql        -14   0   133M 30332K inode    3:37  3.81%  3.81% mysqld
>   547 www            2   0   203M 16664K poll     0:06  1.59%  1.56% java
>   504 www            2   0 23688K  6344K poll     0:00  1.69%  0.44% httpd
>   315 www            2   0 23728K     0K poll     0:00  1.75%  0.24% <httpd>
>   400 www            2   0 23684K     0K poll     0:00  1.75%  0.24% <httpd>

It means the process is completely swapped out to disk.

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	Dan Nelson
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