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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 18:01:24 +0000 |
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diff --git a/help/C/process-status.page b/help/C/process-status.page new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b437995 --- /dev/null +++ b/help/C/process-status.page @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" + type="topic" style="task" + id="process-status"> + + <info> + <revision pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-28" status="complete"/> + <link type="guide" xref="index#processes-info" group="processes-info" /> + <link type="seealso" xref="process-kill" /> + <link type="seealso" xref="cpu-check" /> + + <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> + + <credit type="author copyright"> + <name>Phil Bull</name> + <email>philbull@gmail.com</email> + <years>2014</years> + </credit> + + <desc>The status of a process can be running, sleeping, stopped, or zombie.</desc> + </info> + + <title>What do the process statuses mean?</title> + + <p>The status of a process tells you whether it is currently doing something or not. There are four statuses that a process can have:</p> + + <terms> + <item> + <title>Running</title> + <p>Processes that are currently doing something (for example, a web + browser loading a web page). Running processes are those that are + actively using the processor (CPU).</p> + </item> + <item> + <title>Sleeping</title> + <p>Processes that are not currently doing anything (for example, because + they are waiting for something to happen). They don't use any of the + processor's time, but still take up memory. If they need to do something, + they will "wake up" and change their status to <em>running</em>.</p> + </item> + <item> + <title>Stopped</title> + <p>A <em>stopped</em> process is one that has been put to sleep manually. + You might want to stop a process temporarily if it is using too much + processing time, for example.</p> + <p>To do this, click the process in the <gui>Processes</gui> tab, then + right-click it and select <gui>Stop</gui> from the menu that appears. You + can wake it up again by clicking <gui>Continue</gui> on the same + menu.</p> + </item> + <item> + <title>Zombie</title> + <p>A zombie process is one that has finished running and will never start + again, but is being kept in the list of processes for some reason. This + usually happens because it was started by another program that needs to + know if it finished successfully or not, but which has not checked on the + process yet.</p> + <p>Zombie processes do not use any memory or processing time, and will + eventually go away. You do not need to do anything to get rid of them.</p> + </item> + </terms> + + <p>The majority of processes will either be running or sleeping.</p> + +</page> |