R |
Running or runnable (on run queue) |
D |
Uninterruptible sleep (usually IO) |
S |
Interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete) |
Z |
Defunct/zombie, terminated but not reaped by its parent |
T |
Stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being traced |
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< |
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 |
| Niceness and priority |
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| Process 'niceness' vs. 'priority' - Ask Ubuntu |
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