6. Managing System Processes

This chapter discusses all the basic concepts for managing system processes in the Solaris Operating System. It covers:

Conditions of a process in Solaris

Different states of a process

Process context information

Different commands and utilities present for monitoring and controlling the system processes in Solaris

Process Manager utility for monitoring, controlling, and scheduling the system processes in Solaris

6.1 Overview

The process is one of the fundamental abstractions of Unix. In Unix, every object is represented as either a file or a process. With the introduction of the /proc structure, there has been an effort to represent even processes as files.

A process is an instance of a running program ...

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