C.10.9. RHN Satellite Server::Process Health

CPU Usage — The CPU usage percent for a given process.

Child Process Groups — The number of child processes spawned from the specified parent process. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent.

Threads — The number of running threads for a given process. A thread is the basic unit of CPU utilization, and consists of a program counter, a register set, and a stack space. A thread is also called a lightweight process.

Physical Memory Used — The amount of physical memory in kilobytes being used by the specified process.

Virtual Memory Used — The amount of virtual memory in kilobytes being used by the specified process, or the size of the process in real memory plus swap.