On Saturday 23 June 2001 10:40 am, Nigel Reed wrote:
> According to the man page...
>
> STATE is  the  current  state (one  of "START", "RUN", "STOP", "ZOMB",
> "DEAD", or "CPU") or wait channel if the state is SLEEP
>
>   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.

I actually prefer it as it's more informative about what a process is waiting 
for, eg io, netio, etc.  I'd assume that nfsd is a wait channel (I've not 
looked at the code to confirm that though)

Cheers,
Chris