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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