number of processes

[Ragni Singh]

What command do I run to tell the number of processes on a system. Not number of processes running but # of proceeses on a system. Your help will be greatly appreciated.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

If I understand your question,

system (or kmtune, if 11x) | grep -i nproc

[Helen French]

Hi,

Check this out:

http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/otsearch/getfile?id=/hpux/onlinedocs/os/KCparam.Nproc.html&searchterms=nproc&queryid=20020220-120635

HTH,
Shiju

[Mark Greene_1 · Accepted solution]

This will give you the total number of processes:

ps -ef |wc -l

many of which will be system processes, not user processes, and most of which will not be running at the time you capture the list

HTH
mark