Process status of S+ S S< Sl
Upon checking the process status, I read many strange status
D
I
I<
R+
Rl
S
S+
S<
Sl
Sl+
SLl
SLl+
SN
SNsl
S<s
Ss
Ss+
S<sl
Ssl
Ssl+
STAT
Tl
I learned I (idle,) R(running) , Sleep, but have no ideas the combinations of S+
S<
,
What do they mean? What kind of material should be consult with ?
When in doubt, check the manpage. From the command man ps
:
PROCESS STATE CODES
Here are the different values that the s, stat and state output
specifiers (header "STAT" or "S") will display to describe the state of
a process:
D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
R running or runnable (on run queue)
S interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
T stopped by job control signal
t stopped by debugger during the tracing
W paging (not valid since the 2.6.xx kernel)
X dead (should never be seen)
Z defunct ("zombie") process, terminated but not reaped by
its parent
For BSD formats and when the stat keyword is used, additional
characters may be displayed:
< high-priority (not nice to other users)
N low-priority (nice to other users)
L has pages locked into memory (for real-time and custom IO)
s is a session leader
l is multi-threaded (using CLONE_THREAD, like NPTL pthreads
do)
+ is in the foreground process group
Hope this helps!