topic Re: top command help in Operating System - HP-UX

top command help

1a — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:44:12 GMT

lease find the below top command output,

top

CPU TTY     PID USERNAME PRI NI   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
4 pts/tg 12307 mat   152 20 1576M 1012M run     31:56 100.37 100.19 java
2 pts/tg 12380 mat   152 24 1787M 1440M run     11:36 38.45 38.38 java

in above example what is TTY and pts/tg indicated what

Re: top command help

g3jza — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:50:54 GMT

Hi,
TTY is the name/type of the terminal from which the process comes.

pts/tg should be the terminal of user session

Re: top command help

1a — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:57:00 GMT

please explain pts/tg is backround process or normal process

Re: top command help

Dennis Handly — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:10:45 GMT

>explain pts/tg is background process or normal process

This is the tty device, in /dev/pts/tg.