Memory Usage - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual

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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.
tester@linux:~> 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:

tester@linux:~> 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
17.6.3 Process Tree: pstree
The command pstree produces a list of processes in the form of a tree:
tester@linux:~> pstree
init-+-NetworkManagerD
|-acpid
|-3*[automount]
|-cron
|-cupsd
|-2*[dbus-daemon]
|-dbus-launch
|-dcopserver
336 Installation and Administration
4072 0.0 1.0 15996
4114 0.0 3.7 130988 19172 ?
4818 0.0 0.3
4959 0.0 0.1
STAT TIME COMMAND
Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid
Ss 0:00 sshd: tester [priv]
R 0:00 sshd: tester@pts/0
RSS CMD
0 [ksoftirqd/0]
0 [events/0]
0 [khelper]
0 [kthread]
0 [kblockd/0]
0 [kacpid]
0 [pdflush]
0 [pdflush]
5160 ?
4192 1812 pts/0
2324 816 pts/0
Ss 13:02 0:00 gnome-scre
SLl 13:06 0:04 sound-juic
Ss 15:59 0:00 -bash
R+ 16:17 0:00 ps axu