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ps -ef output

paula hawk_1 — Fri, 09 May 2003 13:31:16 GMT

Can someone tell me what the fourth field represents when you do the "ps -ef | grep XX" command?

thanks..

Re: ps -ef output

Dario_1 — Fri, 09 May 2003 13:36:14 GMT

Paula:

Check this from ps man page:

cpu Processor utilization for scheduling. The default
heading for this column is C.

Regards,

DR

Re: ps -ef output

Robert Gamble — Fri, 09 May 2003 13:37:44 GMT

As per the man page, the fourth column is which CPU the process is executing.

If you pipe your to 'more', you will see the headers on the first line.

Hope this helps!

Re: ps -ef output

Pete Randall — Fri, 09 May 2003 13:37:50 GMT

The man page describes it as "cpu" - presumable the cpu the process is running on in a multi-processor installation?

Pete

Re: ps -ef output

Dietmar Konermann — Fri, 09 May 2003 13:38:06 GMT

man ps:

cpu
Processor utilization for scheduling. The default heading for this column is C.

Re: ps -ef output

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Fri, 09 May 2003 13:38:41 GMT

-f option shows these columns

user, pid, ppid, cpu,stime,tty,time and args

fourth field is cpu time

-USA..

Re: ps -ef output

S.K. Chan — Fri, 09 May 2003 13:43:29 GMT

Man pages tells you that but didn't quite explain it well enough. That column represents the CPU usage of a particular process. Most of the time you'll see "0". This number will increase each time a process take over the CPU cycle. And if I'm not mistaken the C value has a max limit to it, somewhere in the region of of 100, I can;t remember.

Re: ps -ef output

Andreas Schmitz_1 — Fri, 09 May 2003 13:43:36 GMT

Hi Paula,

the the man page for ps:

Output format options:

-f show columns user, pid, ppid, cpu, stime, tty, time, and args, in that order.

cpu means Processor utilization for scheduling. The default heading for this column is C.

Hope is helpful for you.
Br, Andreas

Re: ps -ef output

S.K. Chan — Fri, 09 May 2003 13:43:51 GMT

Re: ps -ef output

John Meissner — Fri, 09 May 2003 13:52:02 GMT

acording to the the man on 'ps' that I did the columns should be
(using the -f option)
user pid tty cpu stime tty time args

I believe the cpu is the processor utilization for scheduling.

Re: ps -ef output

paula hawk_1 — Fri, 09 May 2003 14:01:28 GMT

Thanks everyone!! Have a good weekend.