ps is a command for printing information about running processes
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Which tool can be used to configure the CPU priority of a process?
I know that you can use nice to re assign priorities of processes but which tool can be used to configure the CPU priority of a process ?
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What is the difference in CPU utilization between 'ps aux' and 'ps -ef'?
I use Ubuntu 12.04.1 Linux. I see a difference between %CPU and C output format of ps command for a process. It is not clearly noted in the ps man page.
Man pages says:
CODE HEADER ...
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Using “ps -C java -o pid,user,cmd” Can I reduce the output of cmd?
I am trying to get this command down to just the essential information that I need.
In the command cmd comes back with this output...
/usr/local/jre1.7.0_51/bin/java -Dwd.tag=boxect ...
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Linux ps -elf command output, what is Process Flag meaning?
In output of ps -elf command in linux, we can recognize that process flag of 4 and 1, and process flag of 5, (sum of 1 and 4), but what is meaning of process flag 0 ?
unfortunately, man does not help ...
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Is there a way to see which user is logged into the system and has switched with “su”?
There are many person that may have access to the system and use a common user with more grants. How can I see which user is running a command? is there a way to use "ps" for that?
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Average CPU utilization of a process
I am trying to conduct some experiments for determining what the CPU utilization of my process is. I am familiar with the top and ps commands. Which would be a better solution for getting the average ...
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Very large values for utime and stime for foo. Is foo still running?
I am running a program foo
It has been running for close to 30 days now (even more)
Until around 10 days ago (I cannot be very exact) it used 100% of one cpu on my dual core laptop (it was at the ...
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Can I get WCHAN from ps on Mac OS X 10.7.4?
From the manual it seems that ps -AO wchan should tell me what everything is sleeping on, but everything comes up as -. (And nwchan as 0). Did they do away with the old sleep()/tsleep() interface in ...
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Understanding “vncserver -list” with respect to Xvnc processes
I have a pretty standard setup on a Centos 6.5 VM. I've configured VNC sessions to start at boot per CentOS's wiki
VNCSERVERS="1:root 2:moe 3:curly"
VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 640x480"
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Fedora 21: Getting “libprocps.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory” on ps
I have Fedora 21, which is a fedup from Fedora 20. My problem is that whenever I am using ps commaand, I am getting /usr/bin/dpkgd/ps: error while loading shared libraries:
libprocps.so.1: cannot ...
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Create tree of processes
I'm implementing pstree as an assignment,
and I would like to create test tree of processes, but I'm struggling to do so.
I tried to do something like this to create tree of background processes ...
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ps shows my mkdir command with a space where I had a slash
I have a script that I ran which seemed to hang during a mkdir command. The command is of the form:
mkdir -p /a/b/c/d
However, in the ps results, I see:
mkdir -p /a/b c/d
What could cause this ...
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top/ps/mpstat showing different output
When my top shows a load of 19/20 and my ps shows
root@server:/home/nohup# ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -5
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
122131 18695 mysql /usr/sbin/mysqld xxxxx
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pdf2ps produces pages with decreasing size
I have to process some of PDFs through pdf2ps, because they use some strange fonts that crash the company printer.
The problem is that when I do it, each printed page is slightly smaller than the ...
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Is High Virtual Memory usage a problem or may cause problems?
In our server, we have a python based code that listen ports.
The amount of Virtual Memory it uses is increased greatly with time Like:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT ...
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Possibly Compromised - ./brute xml2014 user x08 300?
I have a long list of a process called "./brute xml2014 user x08 300" when I type in "ps aux". What does this mean? Does this mean my server is being used as a DDoS bot?
Here's a screenshot of what ...
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unix process showing unusual cpu usage and timing in ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 684 186912060 0.0 17140 988 ? Ss Feb24 54195432:44
root 7319 288895842 0.0 4096 668 ? S 04:30 ...
