Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 358

To list all processes with user and command line information, use ps axu:
tux@mercury:~> ps axu
USER
root
root
root
[...]
tux
tux
tux
tux
tux
tux
tux
To check how many sshd processes are running, use the option -p together with the
command pidof, which lists the process IDs of the given processes.
tux@mercury:~> ps -p `pidof sshd`
PID TTY
3524 ?
4813 ?
4817 ?
The process list can be formatted according to your needs. The option -L returns a list
of all keywords. Enter the following command to issue a list of all processes sorted by
memory usage:
tux@mercury:~> ps ax --format pid,rss,cmd --sort rss
PID
2
3
4
5
11
12
472
473
[...]
4028 17556 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2
4118 17800 ksnapshot
4114 19172 sound-juicer
4023 25144 gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
4047 31400 mono-best --debug /usr/lib/beagle/Best.exe --autostarted
3973 31520 mono-beagled --debug /usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemon.exe --bg --aut
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PID %CPU %MEM
1 0.0 0.0
2 0.0 0.0
3 0.0 0.0
4047 0.0 6.0 158548 31400 ?
4057 0.0 0.7 9036
4067 0.0 0.1 2204
4072 0.0 1.0 15996
4114 0.0 3.7 130988 19172 ?
4818 0.0 0.3 4192
4959 0.0 0.1 2324
STAT TIME COMMAND
Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid
Ss 0:00 sshd: tux [priv]
R 0:00 sshd: tux@pts/0
RSS CMD
0 [ksoftirqd/0]
0 [events/0]
0 [khelper]
0 [kthread]
0 [kblockd/0]
0 [kacpid]
0 [pdflush]
0 [pdflush]
VSZ RSS TTY
696 272 ?
0 0 ?
0 0 ?
Ssl
3684 ? Sl
636 ? S
5160 ? Ss
SLl
1812 pts/0 Ss
816 pts/0 R+
STAT START TIME COMMAND
S 12:59 0:01 init [5]
SN 12:59 0:00 [ksoftirqd
S< 12:59 0:00 [events
13:02 0:06 mono-best
13:02 0:00 /opt/gnome
13:02 0:00 /opt/gnome
13:02 0:00 gnome-scre
13:06 0:04 sound-juic
15:59 0:00 -bash
16:17 0:00 ps axu