Every process has some states, below we have mentioned process states in broadway with their process state codes.
Process states:
Running: Process is either running or ready to run
Interruptible: a Blocked state of a process and waiting for an event or signal from another process
Uninterruptible: a blocked state. The process waits for a hardware condition and cannot handle any signal
Stopped: Process is stopped or halted and can be restarted by some other process
Zombie: process terminated, but the information is still there in the process table.
PROCESS STATE CODES:
D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
R runnable (on run queue)
S sleeping
T traced or stopped
Z a defunct (“zombie”) process
