According to the man page...

STATE is  the  current  state (one  of "START", "RUN", "STOP", "ZOMB", "DEAD",
or "CPU")

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 4216 root       2    0    48K  320K nfsd       0:48  0.00%  0.00% nfsd

So, nfsd would be the wait channel? If that is so then fair enough. I
can't say I like it though. 

Regards
Nigel


       or wait channel if the state is SLEEP
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:33:01AM +0100, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2001  1:51 am, Nigel Reed wrote:
> > I'm running a 1.5W kernel and associated userland which I got from
> > anoncvs yesterday at about 6pm CST. I noticed the 'STATE' output from
> > top looks odd. Has there been a change or is something broke which I
> > should send-pr?
> 
> It's changed, and what you're seeing looks right, STATE is now tells you 
> which wait channel the process is now waiting on (which is what a lot of 
> processes actually do), as per the man page.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris

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