On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> # ps auxw | egrep "USER|rsync"
>
> root      5301  0.0  0.0  10036  1280 ?        Ss   01:13
> root      5306  0.2  0.1  56212 31912 pts/0    S+   01:14
> root      5307  0.0  0.1  38052 29708 pts/0    S+   01:14
> root      5308  0.2  0.1  38312 29672 pts/0    S+   01:18
> root      5473  0.0  0.0   2660   592 ttyS1    R+
>
> what does Ss and S+ and R+ mean in stat column in ps command
>

man ps, section "PROCESS STATE CODES"

Briefly,

S means sleeping
R means running or runnable

s means the process is a session leader
+ means the process is running in the foreground

Is that enough, or do you need more explanation?


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