process in stopped status

[Luca Frigatti]

Hi Admin!
do you know what mean "stopped" in the process status on a top command ?
479 processes: 440 sleeping, 30 running, 8 stopped

Thanks in advance for your help and your support.

Luca

[harry d brown jr]

They are processes that have stopped running and are awaiting to exit, possibly their parent process needs to accept their exit?

With glance what do you see?

live free or die
harry

[S.K. Chan]

You can run the 'ps' comand to find out whoch processes are in "stopped" state.

# ps -efl | more
==> look at the 2nd column "S" (means state), most of the processes would have status S (sleeping) or R (running). Look for T (stopped processes).

Do a man ps for more details of the process state.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Luca,

Maybe this link can explain,

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=589c7cd2019c8f74fe/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000058694095

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Steven Gillard_2]

Usually a process will go into this state when it tries to read from stdin while in the background. A signal can also be sent to a process to stop it (SIGSTOP, which can be followed by a SIGCONT to start it again).

It simply means that the process will not be scheduled to run at all.

Regards,
Steve