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dramatically improve performance with NIS+, and may help with DNS as well. Note
that you can't use nscd with 2.0 kernels because of bugs in the kernel-side
thread support. Unfortunately, nscd happens to hit these bugs
particularly hard.  Install nscd if you need a name service lookup caching
daemon, and you're not using a version 2.0 kernel."    In your list below,
these processes are:

346 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
347 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
348 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
349 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
350 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
351 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
352 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd

'Named' by itself is not running on your machine. 

	To find any and all 'named' processes, type just the following at a
shell prompt:  "ps ax | grep [n]amed"  (please omit the quotes...)  If you are
running 'named' you'll get something back, if not, you will be returned to a
shell prompt.  

	Is "tty" the abbreviation for a "terminal"?  -- Yes

	Where do we see the "X" process running in the list?  -- process 407

 407 ?        R      0:08 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07 -auth
/var/lib/xdm/authdir/a  408 ?        S      0:00 -:0 	

This line shows that you are running X on virtual terminal 7, screen 0 onthe
default host....

Is that "PID 1"  -- Yes, it is init -- the grandfather of all unix processes....

	If "STAT" "S" means "sleeping"  what is the meaning of "SW", "SR", and "R"?