[Info-vax] HIBertanting DECthreads process accrues CPU time.

[Hein RMS van den Heuvel]

Sandeeps contribution came after hundreds of lines of included text
and thus was hard to find (for me at least)

So as an attempt to a public service, here is just his reply text.
Hein

---- Sandeep -----

When a threaded application is idle, it schedules null thread.
So if  you see that  the null thread is "running" it means the
application is now idle.
However, the null thread internally calls $HIBER, and the applciation
will now be  in HIB state.
So from pthreads library perspective null thread will always be
"running", however,  from the kernel perspective it would be
HIBernating.
To view the state  of the  process, you could issue a:  $ SHOW SYSTEM /
MULTI /FULL
This command will show what state each kernel thread is in.
If it is  HIB, then the  process is not accumulating CPU time.

-Sandeep