piperd in top

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Aug 01), DAve said:
> We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've been
> watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough. But
> looking at top I am seeing a lot of processes with state of piperd.

Piperd means the process is waiting on a read from a pipe.  You can use
lsof to determine what process is at the other end of the pipe (run
lsof, find your process, find the PIPE fd, then find the other process
with the same 0xXXXXXXXX value).

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com