Processes and PIDs - ps (Con’t)
STAT is the status of the process:
- R Runnable processes.
- T Stopped processes.
- P In page wait.
- D Non-interruptible wait (waiting for disk etc).
- S Sleeping for less than about 20 seconds.
- I Idle, sleeping longer than about 20 seconds.
- Z Terminated; waiting for parent ("zombie").
(W) indicates process is swapped out.