Definitions of process states in top
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Thu Jan 13 08:38:17 PST 2005
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Is there someplace where I can find definitions of the process states
> that I see in the STATE column of top? RUN and CPU1 are easy enough
> to figure out, but most of the rest are mysterious.
The states are scattered throughout the kernel:
sys/kern/kern_time.c: error = tsleep(&nanowait, PWAIT | PCATCH, "nanslp",
src/sys/kern/tty.c: "ttyin" : "ttyhup",
sys/kern/sys_pipe.c: "piperd", 0)) == 0)
...for a few common states (nanslp, ttyin, piperd). Use a command like:
find /usr/src/sys | xargs grep piperd
...and replace piperd with whatever state it is that you are curious about.
--
-Chuck
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