Status field STATE in top(1) interactive mode

[Polytropon]

On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:10:08 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> "umtx lock", "umtx", "umtxn", "umtxpi" and "umtxpp" are internal kernel
> strings that are used to identify particular locks and wait conditions
> where a process may block while running inside the kernel. 

Okay, this makes things more clear to me.



> A recent FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT kernel shows: [...]

Having a look at various source files makes me believe that the
problem described has something to do with memory access of Opera
"through" the kernel (mutex -> mtx). It furthermore explains the
"hanging" - a sleep command in the kernel.

For the "uncond" state, I found nothing as informative as the
above. Maybe it's a "don't know" placeholder. :-)

 PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
9774 poly          3 101    0   145M   115M ucond    0:00 11.08% opera

Furthermore, I think top(1) gets the text for the locks from
somewhere else, they're not part of the top(1) sources. At
least, /usr/src/usr.bin/top is very dry and doesn't contain
much more when in /usr/obj. :-) 



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