On Thursday 24 July 2008, 12:41, b.n. wrote: > > S means sleeping > > R means running or runnable > > > > s means the process is a session leader > > + means the process is running in the foreground > > I jump here to relief my everlasting UNIX ignorance. > > What does it mean a process is "sleeping", technically?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_states
