In the last episode (Sep 11), Nestor Wheelock said:
> I have searched all over the net for a good definition of what the top
> state, "kserel" means. When I run mysql this is the state in which it
> runs.
>
> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
> 2117 mysql 17 20 0 323M 59080K kserel 0 0:02 0.00% mysqld
That's just a wait state used inside libkse threads meaning a thread is
waiting for something to do. Note that for a threaded program, the
STATE seen by top is that of only one thread owned by the process.
Press 'H' to see each thread on its own line.
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Dan Nelson
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