Activity Monitor in Terminal Output

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Ok so I typed "top" into terminal and got Activity Monitor. At the very top it says I have 2 stuck processes and I just rebooted my MBP. It ranges from 1-4 processes being stuck. How do I figure out what these processes are and how do I get them unstuck?

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Stuck indicates that the process is uninterruptible. What this means is the process is waiting for some low-level operation to complete (disk/network io etc). It varies, because its generally a temporary state, and one that is expected in a unix environment.
 
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Stuck indicates that the process is uninterruptible. What this means is the process is waiting for some low-level operation to complete (disk/network io etc). It varies, because its generally a temporary state, and one that is expected in a unix environment.
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So should I be worried? It was showing this when I had nothing open at all.
 
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macuser1232 said:
So should I be worried? It was showing this when I had nothing open at all.
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Correct. There are a ton of processes that run all the time... Not only applications
 

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