The All Processes utility lists all processes running on a given system card.
The following table lists and describes the various process fields.
Process Fields Description
| Description | |
|---|---|
| PID | The system assigns a number every time a process is started. These numbers start at number 1 and are increased by one until 32 768, and then are started again at 1 using available numbers. |
| TTY | The controlling tty (terminal). |
| STAT | Shows the process state. Attribute values: D - uninterruptible sleep (usually I/O), cannot be interrupted through signal. R - running or runnable (on run queue) S - interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete) T - stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being traced. X - dead (should never be seen) Z - defunct (“zombie” process), terminated but not yet reaped by its parent. < - 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 I/O) s - is a session leader l - is multi-threaded (using CLONE_THREAD, like NPTL pthreads do) + - is in the foreground process group |
| TIME | The cumulative CPU (VM) time ("[DD-]HH:MM:SS" format). |
| COMMAND | Command Line of the process (name of the process). |
To view all processes
- From the Main Menu, click Processes (see the preceding table for description of the items on the Process Details on menu bar).
- Using the Process Details on drop-down list, select the system card for which you want to see process details.
- Click Update.
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