Memory Usage - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual

tester 4047 0.0
tester 4057 0.0
tester 4067 0.0
tester 4072 0.0
tester 4114 0.0
tester 4818 0.0
tester 4959 0.0
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 STAT
3524 ? Ss
4813 ? Ss
4817 ? R
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 RSS CMD
2 0 [ksoftirqd/0]
3 0 [events/0]
4 0 [khelper]
5 0 [kthread]
11 0 [kblockd/0]
12 0 [kacpid]
472 0 [pdflush]
473 0 [pdflush]
[...]
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
16.6.3 Process Tree: pstree
The command pstree produces a list of processes in the form of a tree:
6.0 158548 31400 ?
0.7 9036 3684 ?
0.1 2204 636 ?
1.0 15996 5160 ?
3.7 130988 19172 ?
0.3 4192 1812 pts/0
0.1 2324 816 pts/0
TIME COMMAND
0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid
0:00 sshd: tester [priv]
0:00 sshd: tester@pts/0
Ssl 13:02 0:06 mono-best
Sl 13:02 0:00 /opt/gnome
S 13:02 0:00 /opt/gnome
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
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