{"id":769,"date":"2009-11-25T07:35:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T12:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/?p=769"},"modified":"2009-11-25T07:35:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T12:35:53","slug":"ps-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/ps-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"ps examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To see every process on the system using standard syntax:<br \/>\n   ps -e<br \/>\n   ps -ef<br \/>\n   ps -eF<br \/>\n   ps -ely<\/p>\n<p>To see every process on the system using BSD syntax:<br \/>\n   ps ax<br \/>\n   ps axu<\/p>\n<p>To print a process tree:<br \/>\n   ps -ejH<br \/>\n   ps axjf<\/p>\n<p>To get info about threads:<br \/>\n   ps -eLf<br \/>\n   ps axms<\/p>\n<p>To get security info:<br \/>\n   ps -eo euser,ruser,suser,fuser,f,comm,label<br \/>\n   ps axZ<br \/>\n   ps -eM<\/p>\n<p>To see every process except those running as root (real &#038; effective ID)<br \/>\n   ps -U root -u root -N<\/p>\n<p>To see every process with a user-defined format:<br \/>\n   ps -eo pid,tid,class,rtprio,ni,pri,psr,pcpu,stat,wchan:14,comm<br \/>\n   ps axo stat,euid,ruid,tty,tpgid,sess,pgrp,ppid,pid,pcpu,comm<br \/>\n   ps -eopid,tt,user,fname,tmout,f,wchan<\/p>\n<p>Odd display with AIX field descriptors:<br \/>\n   ps -o &#8220;%u : %U : %p : %a&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Print only the process IDs of syslogd:<br \/>\n   ps -C syslogd -o pid=<\/p>\n<p>Print only the name of PID 42:<br \/>\n   ps -p 42 -o comm=<\/p>\n<p>Find Out The Top 10 Memory Consuming Process<br \/>\n   ps -auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -10<\/p>\n<p>Find Out top 10 CPU Consuming Process<br \/>\n   ps -auxf | sort -nr -k 3 | head -10<\/p>\n<p>Max cpu resource usage<br \/>\n   ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -r -k1 | more<\/p>\n<p>To get the long list of a process, if we have pid<br \/>\n   ps -efm \u2013columns 2048 | grep <pid>\n<p>Extra fun:<br \/>\nps aux | awk &#8216;{print $4&#8243;\\t&#8221;$11}&#8217; | sort | uniq -c | awk &#8216;{print $2&#8243; &#8220;$1&#8221; &#8220;$3}&#8217; | sort -nr<br \/>\nps aux &#8211;forest<\/pid>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To see every process on the system using standard syntax: ps -e ps -ef ps -eF ps -ely To see every process on the system using BSD syntax: ps ax ps axu To print a process tree: ps -ejH ps axjf To get info about threads: ps -eLf ps axms To get security info: ps&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/ps-examples\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ps examples - Linux Shtuff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/ps-examples\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ps examples - Linux Shtuff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To see every process on the system using standard syntax: ps -e ps -ef ps -eF ps -ely To see every process on the system using BSD syntax: ps ax ps axu To print a process tree: ps -ejH ps axjf To get info about threads: ps -eLf ps axms To get security info: ps... 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