Here's from the man of ps: The ">" or "<" are normal.
Additional characters after these, if any, indicate
additional
state information:
+ The process is in the foreground process group of
its
control terminal.
< The process has raised CPU scheduling priority.
The process has specified a soft limit on memory
require-
ments and is currently exceeding that limit; such a
process is (necessarily) not swapped.
A the process has asked for random page replacement
(VA_ANOM, from vadvise(2), for example, lisp(1) in
a
garbage collect).
E The process is trying to exit.
L The process has pages locked in core (for example,
for
raw I/O).
N The process has reduced CPU scheduling priority
(see
setpriority(2)).
S The process has asked for FIFO page replacement
(VA_SEQL,
from vadvise(2), for example, a large image
processing
program using virtual memory to sequentially
address
voluminous data).
s The process is a session leader.
V The process is suspended during a vfork.
W The process is swapped out.
X The process is being traced or debugged.
Kent C. Brodie - user-da7f7d5174c0@xymon.invalid
Department of Physiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
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