Processes shown in top(utility)

[Movin Shah]

Dear All,

When i run top(performance utility) in HPUX it shows me some processes as "sleeping" and 1 or 2 processes in zombie.

what does sleeping & zombie mean?

Regards
Bhavin Shah

[Justo Exposito]

Hi Movin,

Sleeping=It's waiting for user action.
Zombie=His father process was died.

Regards,

Justo.

[Peter Kloetgen]

Hi Movin,

a sleeping process:

process is running, but not actually working. Process awakens, if a request is sent to it by other processes or users.

a zombie process:

if you kill a processes parent process, it normally dies together with the parent process. If not, this process should be dead, but is still living, and so it is called a zombie. You can't get rid of these processes with kill command, normally you have to do a reboot.

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Pete