From fb31765cbe33890f325a87015507364156741321 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 19:59:44 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 42.0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- help/C/process-status.page | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+) create mode 100644 help/C/process-status.page (limited to 'help/C/process-status.page') 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 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + Phil Bull + philbull@gmail.com + 2014 + + + The status of a process can be running, sleeping, stopped, or zombie. + + + What do the process statuses mean? + +

The status of a process tells you whether it is currently doing something or not. There are four statuses that a process can have:

+ + + + Running +

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).

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+ + Sleeping +

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 running.

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+ + Stopped +

A stopped 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.

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To do this, click the process in the Processes tab, then + right-click it and select Stop from the menu that appears. You + can wake it up again by clicking Continue on the same + menu.

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+ + Zombie +

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.

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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.

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The majority of processes will either be running or sleeping.

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