Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

2008-07-24 Thread b.n.
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Kaushal Shriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi # ps auxw | egrep USER|rsync root 5301 0.0 0.0 10036 1280 ?Ss 01:13 root 5306 0.2 0.1 56212 31912 pts/0S+ 01:14

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

2008-07-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 24 July 2008, 12:41, b.n. wrote: S means sleeping R means running or runnable s means the process is a session leader + means the process is running in the foreground I jump here to relief my everlasting UNIX ignorance. What does it mean a process is sleeping,

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

2008-07-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 July 2008, b.n. wrote: I jump here to relief my everlasting UNIX ignorance. What does it mean a process is sleeping, technically? It's a misnomer, it means not running. The cpu gives the illusion of executing many tasks simultaneously. In reality, it is executing them one at

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

2008-07-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 24 July 2008, 17:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: What does it mean a process is sleeping, technically? It's a misnomer, it means not running. The cpu gives the illusion of executing many tasks simultaneously. In reality, it is executing them one at a time and very rapidly (many times

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

2008-07-24 Thread b.n.
Etaoin Shrdlu ha scritto: From what I know, blocked is the same as sleeping, ie waiting for something to happen. Tasks that have completed their time slice and are forced by the scheduler to stop, are not sleeping; they are re-inserted in the queue of the runnable processes, and the scheduler

[gentoo-user] ps command

2008-07-23 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi # ps auxw | egrep USER|rsync root 5301 0.0 0.0 10036 1280 ?Ss 01:13 root 5306 0.2 0.1 56212 31912 pts/0S+ 01:14 root 5307 0.0 0.1 38052 29708 pts/0S+ 01:14 root 5308 0.2 0.1 38312 29672 pts/0S+ 01:18 root 5473 0.0 0.0 2660

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

2008-07-23 Thread Pintér Tibor
man ps t Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi # ps auxw | egrep USER|rsync root 5301 0.0 0.0 10036 1280 ?Ss 01:13 root 5306 0.2 0.1 56212 31912 pts/0S+ 01:14 root 5307 0.0 0.1 38052 29708 pts/0S+ 01:14 root 5308 0.2 0.1 38312 29672 pts/0S+

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

2008-07-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Kaushal Shriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi # ps auxw | egrep USER|rsync root 5301 0.0 0.0 10036 1280 ?Ss 01:13 root 5306 0.2 0.1 56212 31912 pts/0S+ 01:14 root 5307 0.0 0.1 38052 29708 pts/0S+ 01:14 root