topic Re: Ps command in Operating System - HP-UX

Ps command

Chartier Jerome — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:10:08 GMT

Hello,

When I launch the ps command with several switches (-eaf for example), the output on the screen is truncated (command path). My term is vt220 or 320. Have you got any idea to output the full path in the output.

Thanks in advance

REgards

J??r??me

Re: Ps command

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:17:48 GMT

Hi J??r??me,

Depending on what Terminal you use, there would an option to "unwrap" the lines. You will need to enable it.

-Sri

Re: Ps command

Robin Wakefield — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:20:37 GMT

Hi Jerome,

If you mean that the command associated with each process is not shown in full, please refer to:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x400557bd90a9d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

rgds, Robin

Re: Ps command

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:22:44 GMT

Hi:

I addition to Sri's comments, remember that
the kernel saves only a finite subset of the command line (args). Hence, even after line-wrap, you may not see the complete command line.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Ps command

Pete Randall — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:24:18 GMT

Jerome,

Have a look at this thread about showing all the command line args via ps:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x3b6142308663d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Pete

Re: Ps command

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:25:59 GMT

Hi (again) Jerome:

I should add that on 11.0 you're limited to 64-characters. On 11.11, add the '-x' option to the 'ps' arguments to extend your command display to 1024 characters.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Ps command

Dietmar Konermann — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:43:51 GMT

Just an additional hint... 11.00 with PHCO_26274, PHKL_26008 and PHKL_28202 offers the same ps -x option.

Re: Ps command

T. M. Louah — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:56:33 GMT

Try UNIX95 ps implementation, you can control the nbr of colums in ur output, e.g. I use the following command to sort memory consumption per process :

# UNIX95= ps -eo vsz,ruser,ppid,pid,comm |sort -rn |more
16872 root 3344 3475 monconfig
7968 root 1 1840 prm3d
4444 root 1 1413 rpcd
2952 root 1 1868 swagentd

vsz: Memory in KBytes
PPID: Parent Process ID
Comm: Command can be replaced by `args` for more path details. here when ruser is omitted:
#UNIX95= ps -eo vsz,ppid,pid,args |sort -rn |more
16872 3344 3475 ./monconfig
7968 1 1840 /opt/prm/bin/prm3d
4444 1 1413 /opt/dce/sbin/rpcd
2952 1 1868 /usr/sbin/swagentd -r
2928 1 1805 /opt/perf/bin/midaemon
..

UNIX95 specifies to use the XPG4 behavior for ps(1). Please refer to EXTERNAL INFLUENCES in ps manpages.
Cheers,
T??
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