Questions tagged [ps]
In most Unix-like operating systems, the "ps" program displays the currently-running processes.
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How to prevent "ps" reporting its own process?
$ ps | grep django
28006 ttys004 0:01.12 /usr/bin/python bin/django celeryd --beat
51393 ttys005 0:01.45 /usr/bin/python bin/django celeryd -l INFO
51472 ttys005 0:01.29 /usr/bin/python bin/...
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How is memory usage reported in Linux?
Using ps, I can see the size, the vsize (same as top's VIRT?), and the rss (same as top's RES?). (One more I see in top is SHR.)
Could someone summarize for me what these different fields mean?
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Wchan section in ps output not showing anything
I know that if a process go into D state then it means that it is in uninterruptable state. The process can not be killed by any signal. It will only come out of that state on reboot or if I/O wait is ...
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How to get /proc/[pid]/cmdline to contain command arguments?
I am running into an issue where some of my Ubuntu/Debian servers do not show the arguments passed to rake in either top or ps. I have tracked this problem down to a variation in output given by /...
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top, w, ps showing wrong CPU times
I've spotted this trait recently on some of my Ubuntu servers (10.04.2) on Amazon EC2 (not noticed this on any physical boxes), and can't quite comprehend how it's getting these figures. They can't be ...
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How may I know the amount of memory used by each one of my apache sites?
When I run ps aux I get the following process table http://pastebin.com/NJsASBek that shows how much memory is being used by each one of the subprocess. We can see apache proceess are shown like this:
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How can you see clearly process data from ps -u $user?
The question is based on this thread.
Problem: to find an installation within the process data
I would like to know how you can see from the following data that I have the updates of MacPorts' ports ...