just what does kserel mean?

[Eric Schuele]

On 09/11/06 17:14, Nestor Wheelock wrote:
> I have searched all over the net for a good definition of what the top 
> state, "kserel" means.  When I run mysql this is the state in which it 

I don't mean to be stating the obvious... but as a newbie you might not 
know that KSE == "Kernel Schedulable Entity"

You can do all sorts of googling on "freebsd KSE" and as Chuck mentioned 
browse sys/kern/kern_kse.c

HTH.

> runs.
> 
>   PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>  2117 mysql      17  20    0   323M 59080K kserel 0   0:02  0.00% mysqld
> 
> 
> I'm a newbie with freebsd and am concerned that this might be some sort 
> of problem since my installation of Mysql turned out to be rather 
> challenging.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nestor
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Regards,
Eric