Chapter 20. Dealing with HP-UX Processes

Chapter Syllabus

  • 20.1 Process Table

  • 20.2 Process States

  • 20.3 Listing Processes

  • 20.4 Sending Signals to Processes

  • 20.5 Process Nice Values

  • 20.6 Some Useful Commands

Every time you start a command or a program, a process is created in memory. A process is an instance of a running program. On an abstract level, it contains text, data, and stack parts. Text is the code that is being executed and the data are acted on by the code. A process is either in a user or kernel state. In either of these two states, a process uses temporary space for storing data. This temporary space in memory is called the stack. If a process is in user mode, it is using the user stack, and if it is in kernel mode, it uses the kernel stack. ...

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