PS Column Descriptions Flashcards
%cpu
percentage CPU usage (alias pcpu)
%mem
percentage memory usage (alias pmem)
acflag
accounting flag (alias acflg)
args
command and arguments
comm
command
command
command and arguments
cpu
shot-term CPU usage factor (for scheduling)
etime
elapsed runnning time
flags
the process flags, in hexadecimal (alias f)
gid
process group id (alias group)
inblk
total blacks read (alias inblock)
jobc
job control count
ktrace
tracing flags
ktracep
tracing vnode
lim
memoryuse limit
logname
login name of user who started the session
lstart
time started
majflt
total page faults
minflt
total page reclaims
msgrcv
total messages received (reads from pipes/sockets)
msgsnd
total messages sent (writes on pipes/sockets)
nice
nice value (alias ni)
nivcsw
total involuntary context switches
nsigs
total signals taken (alias nsignals)
nswap
total swaps in/out
nvcsw
total voluntary context switches