Process States

Process States and Their Transitions

 When a process is born, its life in the system begins
 During its existence a process executes, it changes states.

 I. New
(The process is being created.)

II. Ready
(The process is waiting to be assigned to processors.)
A process which is ready to execute by the processor is said to be in ready state.

III. Running
(Instructions are being executed.)

IV. Waiting / Blocked State
The process is waiting for some event to occur (such as an I/O completion or reception of a signal)

V.Terminated
The process has finished execution.

http://mavieksen.blogspot.com/2012/10/process-states.html

• 1 Primary process states

1.1 Created
1.2 Ready or waiting
1.3 Running
1.4 Blocked
1.5 Terminated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_state