On 9/16/05, Ez-Aton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Usually I/O bound proccesses would have the flag D when viewed using either > `ps` or `top`. The D is for "Delayed", which means the proccess waites for
"D" is for "Device", i.e. the process is waiting on some device. > something else. As CPUs today are very strong, and disk I/O has rather > unchanged during the last few years, delayed proccesses wait, almost always, > to I/O. That's why I think my correction above is significant - "D" means that the process is waiting on a device I/O, not anything else (like CPU, for instance). I'm not sure what's your definition of a process in a "delayed" state, could you explain it or point to the definition you are relaying on? Cheers, --Amos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
