8.12 Monitoring or Killing an Individual Process

On the Process Information page for a selected process, you can view information about the process; issue a SIGTERM, SIGKILL, or SIGHUP signal to kill the process; or send a custom signal. The process information is obtained from the stat file that is available for the process ID in the /proc directory. Process information can also be retrieved at the command line by using the Linux top command.

To view process information, click Manage Linux > View Process Information, then click the name link of the process.

Table 8-5 Process Information

Parameter

Description

Process Name

Shows the process or executable program name.

Process ID

Shows the process identifier.

Status

Shows the current status of the process. The status can be running, sleeping (an interruptible wait), zombie, D (waiting in uninterruptible disk sleep), T (traced or stopped on a signal), or W for paging.

Command Line

Shows the actual command line of the executed command to start this process.

Working Directory

Shows the current working directory of the process.

Executable Path

Shows the actual path name of the executed command to start this process.

Total Memory

Shows the total memory allocated to this process.

Code Size

Shows the total memory allocated for code to this process.

Data Size

Shows the total memory allocated for data to this process.

Library Memory

Shows the total memory allocated for libraries to this process.

Dirty Pages

Shows the total memory that is dirty that belongs to this process.

Resident Pages

Shows the amount of memory that this process is using that has not been swapped out.

Tasks

Shows a list of tasks or threads belonging to this process.

File Descriptors

Shows a list of file descriptors that the process has open.