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
nwchan
wait channel (as an address)
oublk
total blocks written (alias oublock)
p_ru
resource usage (valid only for zombie)
paddr
swap address
pagein
pageins (same as majflt)
pgid
process group number
pid
process ID
ppid
parent process ID
pri
scheduling priority
re
core residency time (in seconds; 127 = infinity)
rgid
real group ID
rss
resident set size
ruid
real user ID
ruser
user name (from ruid)
sess
session ID
sig
pending signals (alias pending)
sigmask
blocked signals (alias blocked)
sl
sleep time (in seconds; 127 = infinity
start
time started
state
symbolic process state (alias stat)
svgid
saved grid from a setgid executable
svuid
saved UID from a setuid executable
tdev
control terminal device number
time
accumulated CPU time, user + system (alias cputime)
tpgid
control terminal process group ID
tsess
control terminal session ID
tsiz
text size (in Kbytes)
tt
control terminal name (two letter abbreviation)
tty
full name of control terminal
ucomm
name to be used for accouting
uid
effective user ID
upr
scheduling priority on return from system call (alias usrpri)
user
user name (from UID)
utime
user CPU time (alias putime)
vsz
virtual size in Kbytes (alias vsize)
wchan
wait channel (as a symbolic name)
wq
total number of workqueue threads
wqb
number of blocked workqueue threads
wqr
number of running workqueue threads
wql
workqueue limit status (C = constrained thread limit, T = total thread limit)
xstat
exit or stop status (valid only for stopped or zombie process)