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I'm using Top from the procps-ng package, version 3.3.12. The man page leaves out what the I state stands for

28. S -- Process Status The status of the task which can be one of: D = uninterruptible sleep R = running S = sleeping T = stopped by job control signal t = stopped by debugger during trace Z = zombie

I see many processes started by root in this state, what does it mean?

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    Apparently this issue with top's documentation has has been reported as a bug and fixed in procps version 3.3.13. Commented Aug 14, 2019 at 19:43

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Reset to default
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"Idle".

From the source code:

 switch (this->state) { case 'R': Frame_running++; break; case 't': // 't' (tracing stop) case 'T': Frame_stopped++; break; case 'Z': Frame_zombied++; break; default: /* currently: 'D' (disk sleep), 'I' (idle), 'P' (parked), 'S' (sleeping), 'X' (dead - actually 'dying' & probably never seen) */ Frame_sleepin++; break; }
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