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Command: ps - process status
Syntax: ps [-alxU] [kernel mm fs]
Flags: -a Print all processes with controlling terminals
-l Give long listing
-x Include processes without a terminal
Examples: ps -axl # Print all processes and tasks in
long format
Ps prints the status of active processes. Normally only the
caller's own processes are listed in short format (the PID, TTY, TIME
and CMD fields as explained below). The long listing contains:
F Kernel flags:
001: free slot
002: no memory map
004: sending;
010: receiving
020: inform on pending signals
040: pending signals
100: being traced.
S
State:
R: runnable
W: waiting (on a message)
S: sleeping (i.e.,suspended on MM or FS)
Z: zombie
T: stopped
UID, PID, PPID, PGRP
The user, process, parent process and process group ID's.
SZ
Size of the process in kilobytes.
RECV
Process/task on which a receiving process is waiting or sleeping.
TTY
Controlling tty for the process.
TIME
Process' cumulative (user + system) execution time.
CMD Command line arguments of the process.
The files /dev/{mem,kmem} are used to read the system tables and
command line arguments from. Terminal names in /dev are used to
generate the mnemonic names in the TTY column, so ps is independent of
terminal naming conventions.