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In most Unix-like operating systems, the "ps" program displays the currently-running processes.

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Show full process name in top

I'm running a Rails stack on Ubuntu. When I call ps -AF, I get a descriptive process name set by the Apache module like 00:00:43 Rails: /var/www... which is really helpful in diagnosing load issues. But when I call top, the same process shows up…
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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/django celeryd -l INFO 51510 ttys005 0:01.89…
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what s+ S1+ T R+ mean in ps ax ps list

I run this command and got result this but not able to understand the result which node instance should i kill ps ax | grep node 23308 pts/3 S+ 0:00 sudo node index.js 23310 pts/3 Sl+ 0:00 node index.js 23568 pts/1 T 0:00…
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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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Monitor all newly spawned processes on a Linux machine

Sometimes a process comes and goes faster than I can ps aux, I tried watch -d -n0.1 "ps aux | tail" but again, that's restricted to 1/10th of a second. What I really want is to run a command and follow all new processes, one per line, as they spawn.…
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D+ status in ps output

Is there any difference between D, Ds and D+ status of process from the ps output $ ps -e -o pid,stat,comm,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN | grep D PID STAT COMMAND WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN 12987 D+ du o2net_send_message_vec I understand…
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CPU% more than 100 in ps -aux

We use ps -aux to find out when tomcat process takes high CPU utilization, if that so we will send a alert to Group. But some times %CPU shows more than 100, but our application working fine. Is it bad sign or whether our understanding is correct…
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Who is user 500?

after runnning ps aux command I see this line 500 23931 0.0 0.6 63764 6880 ? S 08:49 0:01 /usr/sbin/sw-cp-serverd -f /etc/sw-cp-server/config I'm a beginner in this whole vps administration, so am asking if I should be worried?
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What is causing these flush processes?

What are these flush processes? $ ps aux | grep flush root 710 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 2012 2:29 [flush-202:1] root 10732 6.2 0.0 0 0 ? S Apr14 453:33 [flush-202:80] ubuntu 24009 0.0 0.0 8080 …
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Unix / Linux command to see finished or killed processes

Is there a way to see processed that finished running or were killed a given amount of time ago? For instance, ps -ef will show all running processes, but if a process finishes, it is no longer returned by this command. So for instance if I wanted…
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Getting full path of executables in 'ps auxwww' output

Consider the following lines from a "ps auxwww" output: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 4262 0.0 0,1 76592 1104 s005 Ss 10:02am 0:00.03 login -pf yo yo 4263 0.0 0,0 …
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When using ps with a user-defined format, how do I get a column with unlimited width?

I'm using ps with the user-defined format as shown below: $ ps ax -o pid,args,psr,pcpu | grep python 2236 /usr/bin/python2.7 -u /home 2 0.0 2452 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/un 2 0.0 2480 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ub 0 0.7 2501 /usr/bin/python…
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busybox - how to list process priority?

How to list process priority on an embedded linux with busybox?
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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 over. I have many process in D state which…
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How to find full process arguments and associated listening ports?

I can execute netstat -atulpn | grep java to find all Java processes with their accompanying ports, which is great, however I would like to also have the processes full execution arguments also shown. I don't believe that this is possible with…
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