stat ...sleep

From: Johny Smith (beechanji@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 20 2002 - 19:02:25 EDT


Hi Guys,

Whenever I am to start some think, I have waiting time say 5-15 sec. I check
with top, o/p is

last pid: 8031; load averages: 0.04, 0.08, 0.16
08:50:50
97 processes: 95 sleeping, 1 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 93.0% idle, 6.0% user, 1.0% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 256M real, 57M free, 152M swap in use, 563M swap free

  PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
   325 root 1 59 0 33M 73M sleep 60:00 4.06% Xsun
5921 6050 1 48 0 48M 38M sleep 14:14 1.25% netscape
8016 root 1 59 0 2552K 2232K cpu 0:01 0.15% top
  436 6050 6 48 0 8960K 6272K sleep 0:32 0.10% dtwm
  545 6050 1 49 0 3912K 2544K sleep 0:00 0.02% xterm
  327 root 12 58 0 2416K 1768K sleep 0:47 0.01% mibiisa
  524 6050 1 48 0 45M 11M sleep 5:20 0.00% netscape
2700 6050 1 59 0 10M 7544K sleep 0:24 0.00% pine
  427 6050 4 59 0 5296K 3360K sleep 0:20 0.00% ttsession
  428 6050 5 38 0 9744K 6408K sleep 0:16 0.00% dtsession
2699 6050 1 49 0 3920K 2624K sleep 0:09 0.00% xterm
  189 root 5 58 0 3632K 2304K sleep 0:09 0.00% automountd
  493 6050 1 49 0 7912K 4536K sleep 0:08 0.00% wfica
5772 6050 4 48 0 23M 16M sleep 0:02 0.00% sas
  217 root 8 50 0 4440K 2944K sleep 0:02 0.00% nscd

Any idea on STATE ...sleep for most of the processes, even though I am
using that.

Help appreciated

Regards

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