[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+ 0

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

2008-07-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:18:57 +0200, Pintér Tibor wrote: > man ps Top posting ignorance and RTFM rudeness in only six characters, how concise! -- Neil Bothwick new oxymoron: final beta signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

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] > 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:

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 "sleepi

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

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 (m

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 sch