click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
top and ps
Process management
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Interactive top options: Display HELP menu | h |
| Interactive top options: Add or Remove columns | f |
| Interactive top options:Show a list of sortable columns | F - then click the letter next to the column to be sorted |
| Interactive top options: Specify a USER | u |
| Interactive top options: Kill a process | K (prompted for the process ID and the signal to sent to it |
| Interactive top options: Change the number of displayed processes | n (prompted for a number) |
| Interactive top options: Sort the list by memory usage | M |
| Interactive top options: Quit the utility | q |
| ps Options: Show all processes | -A, or -e |
| ps Options: Show processes owned by other users and attached to a terminal (foreground processes) | -a |
| ps Options:Show all possible details for processes | -f |
| ps Options: Show processes in long format and the process state | -l |
| ps Options: Process state SLEEPING | S |
| ps Options: Process state RUNNING | r |
| ps Options: Process state TRACED by another process (stopped) | t |
| ps Options: Process state ZOMBIE | Z |
| ps Options: Show processes by user ID | -u |
| ps Options: Shows processes that are not attached to a controlling terminal – (use to view daemon processes that begin during boot process) | -x |
| ps Options: Select by tty | -t |
| ps Options: Select by PID | -P |
| ps Options: Show all processes including zombie processes | ps aux |
| ps Options: Show processes in long format | ps elf |