ps is a command for printing information about running processes
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How can I get a full process list in solaris, without truncated lines?
Is there a way to generate a full process listing in solaris, without truncated lines? I've tried the ps commmand, with the following arguments:
-f Generates a full listing. ...
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Finding the ID of a process and killing it
When ever I need to kill a background process I do ps -e | grep <process_name>
Which prints something like this 1766 ? 00:00:13 conky , Then I use the process ID to kill it like so kill 1766 .
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What are “session leaders” in `ps`?
What are session leaders, as in ps -d which selects all processes except session leaders?
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In what order do piped commands run?
I've never really thought about how the shell actually executes piped commands. I've always been told that the "stdout of one program gets piped into the stdin of another," as a way of thinking about ...
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ps command not giving output in home directory
I am logging into a solaris server, switching to bash, then switching to another user "sruser" and switching to bash.
/home/batch/sruser/ is the home directory of the user "sruser".
The issue is ps ...
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Why the value of VSIZE in top is different from the value of VSZ (Virtual set size) in ps?
I know VSZ in ps is for the total address space allocated for the app and is sometimes aliased as vsize (mentioned in man page of ps on linux), but what's the definition of VSIZE in top? This top ...
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Uniquely identifying java processes with same name
I have two java processes which run using the same file name, MyApp.jar (for example).
/usr/java/latest/bin/java -jar MyApp.jar
These jars exist in different places and use different ...
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Elegantly get list of descendant processes
I would like to get a list of all the processes that descend (e.g. children, grand-children, etc) from $pid. This is the simplest way I've come up with:
pstree -p $pid | tr "\n" " " |sed "s/[^0-9]/ ...
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Top and ps not showing the same cpu result
This is linked to this question.
When I run top I get the following result:
pid 3038 is using 18% cpu, however when running
the result is 5.5%. And this number does not appear to be changing ...
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Mathematical connection between SZ RSS and VSZ in ps o/p?
I wanted to know what mathematical connection is there between the SZ, RSZ and VSZ output in ps output e.g.
ps -p 2363 -o sz,rss,vsz
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What does this process STAT indicates?
If you check the STAT column in above image you will see Ss S S< SN and R+
What does this indicates ? Process states.
If yes,Then what is the significance of 'Ss S< SN and R+'?
