Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

[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 scheduler
> picks them up again from there when another time slice is assigned to
> them. These processes are in the "runnable" or "ready" state.
>
> But of course I may be wrong, so corrections welcome.

Thanks, the wikipedia article is very clear.

m.