Top "Ps" questions

ps is the UNIX command for retreiving process information.

How can I get process name of specific PID with ps command in alpine

In ubuntu based docker/os $ ps PID USER TIME COMMAND 1 postgres 0:00 postgres 47 postgres 0:00 postgres: checkpointer process 48 postgres 0:00 postgres: writer process 49 …

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How to find/kill a specific python program

There are two different python programs running in this VM one is a background job who monitors a folder and …

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What does www mean in ps auxwww?

I found that ps aux lists processes that are currently running and I found other people mentioning ps auxwww . I …

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how do you get window ID for xdotool automatically

I am trying to automate testing forms that selenium would take too long (javascript heavy modern forms), and I want …

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How to see process with arguments in windows using any cygwin utilities

If I use ps -efW, it is listing the Windows processes, but not with command-line arguments. I came across three …

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Using 'ps' command in Linux, how to see the realtime data?

I found that my java web server(tomcat) used high cpu, so I used 'ps aux' to see the process …

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Why does ps o/p list the grep process after the pipe?

When I do $ ps -ef | grep cron I get root 1036 1 0 Jul28 ? 00:00:00 cron abc 21025 14334 0 19:15 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto cron My question …

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how to get certain columns from ps aux

Im using ps aux to ouput the top 10 processes on my computer sorted by memory. This is the command that …

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Kill a process from Linux Application

What is best and most efficient way to find pid of a specific task. Say: ps -ef | grep "\/usr\/sbin\/…

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Getting memory usage from 'ps aux' output with awk

I have to solve an exercise using awk. Basically I need to retrieve from 'ps aux' command the total of …

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