Re: Status field STATE in top(1) interactive mode

2009-03-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:10:08 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas 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 mo

Re: Status field STATE in top(1) interactive mode

2009-03-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 07:44:23 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > Hi list, > > in order to find out why Opera often keeps hanging (doing nothing), > often for several minutes, I checked its top(1) output. > > Reading "man top", I found the following explaination: > > [...] STATE is the current state (o

Status field STATE in top(1) interactive mode

2009-03-06 Thread Polytropon
Hi list, in order to find out why Opera often keeps hanging (doing nothing), often for several minutes, I checked its top(1) output. Reading "man top", I found the following explaination: [...] STATE is the current state (one of "START", "RUN" (shown as "CPUn" on SMP systems), "S