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Alex Zbyslaw
xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Wed Jun 14 10:34:17 UTC 2006
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:40:02 -0500, "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>What do all these things mean, they are from the STATE column in top?:
>>
>>
>The lowercase names are the names of sleep-events on
>which a process is blocked.
>
A few of these I think I have figured out over the years but pinch of
salt please, not a lernel hacker:
>>bo_wwa
>>biowr
>>
>>
writing to disk. Other devices too, probably.
>>*proce
>>getblk
>>
>>
reading from disk. Other devices too probably.
>>RUN
>>select
>>
>>
waiting for data to arrive on a socket. See man select.
>>drainv
>>
>>
>>*Giant
>>nanslp
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sleeping. see man 3 sleep
>>pause
>>
>>
Waiting for signal, I believe. See man 3 pause.
>>wait
>>
>>
Waiting for children. See man 2 wait.
>>kserel
>>ttyin
>>
>>
reading from a tty.
You missed "piperd" == reading from a pipe.
"lockf" = locked file. See man lockf.
Those have got me through most common situations where I want to know
what's going on. kserel is the only common one I have no clue about.
--Alex
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