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Re: Top
> Can you tell me the difference between sleeping, zombie, and stopped in
> reference to the processes as listed in Top within X Windows.
A zombie is a process that has exited and has a parent (been forked),
but has not yet been waited for by the parent. Is sometimes marked
as defunct.
A sleeping process is waiting for something (like I/O), or actually
sleeping, see sleep (1).
A stopped process is stopped. You can stop a process with a CTRL-Z
at the bash prompt, or send a SIGSTOP signal to the process with kill.
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System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan 49093 USA
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