HP NonStop NS manual Processes Monitoring Recovery, Types of Processes, System Processes

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Processes: Monitoring and

Recovery

When to Use This Section on page 5-1

Types of Processes on page 5-1

System Processes on page 5-1

I/O Processes (IOPs) on page 5-2

Generic Processes on page 5-2

Monitoring Processes on page 5-3

Monitoring System Processes on page 3

Monitoring IOPs on page 4

Monitoring Generic Processes on page 4

Recovery Operations for Processes on page 5-6

Related Reading on page 5-6

When to Use This Section

This section provides basic information about the different types of processes for Integrity NonStop servers. It gives a brief example of monitoring each type of process and provides information about the commands available for recovery operations.

Types of Processes

Three types of processes are of major concern to a system operator of an Integrity NonStop NS-series server:

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System processes I/O processes (IOPs) Generic processes

System Processes

A system process is a privileged process that is created during system load and exists continuously for a given configuration for as long as the processor remains operable. Examples of system processes include the memory manager, the monitor, and the I/O control processes.

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