FreeBSD process STATES and their meanings

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-01-01 18:54, Fr0zen <fr0zen at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>Fr0zen wrote on Sunday, December 31, 2006 1:25 AM:
>> Does anyone have a small list with biref descriptions of what each
>> value in the STATE column in top represent. e.g sbwait, kserel,
>> nanslap, select, piperd, etc... I once saw one in the achieves, but I
>> am unable to find it again.
>>
>> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Anyone?

Please *don't* top-post.  I've fixed it this time, but it gets
old pretty fast in large, complex threads.

Have you tried looking at the manpage of top(1)?  It contains a
small description of what the values of the STATE column are
supposed to represent.

- Giorgos