ps command #2 - Advance

ps command #1

Usually, when we are monitoring process, we are targeting something which can impact our server performance or some specific process. For doing so we grep the ps output -

This is how we call list all http processes -

$ ps aux | grep http

atul      7585  0.0  0.0 177676   592 ?        S    Dec06   0:00 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-http --spawner :1.7 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2
root     28848  0.0  0.0   2700   168 pts/0    D+   02:49   0:00 grep http

you can filter ps command output by any keyword as above.

There are some ps options which can give you a customized output -

To see every process on the system using standard syntax:

$ ps -e

$ ps -ef

$ ps -eF

$ ps -ely

To see every process on the system using BSD syntax:

$ ps ax

$ ps axu

To print a process tree:

$ ps -ejH

$ ps axjf

To get info about threads:

$ ps -eLf

$ ps axms

To get security info:

$ ps -eo euser,ruser,suser,fuser,f,comm,lable

$ ps axZ

$ ps -eM

To see every process running as root (real & effective ID) in user format:

$ ps -U root -u root u

To see every process with a user-defined format:

$ ps -eo pid,tid,class,rtprio,ni,pri,psr,pcpu,stat,wchan:14,comm
$ ps axo stat,euid,ruid,tty,tpgid,sess,pgrp,ppid,pid,pcpu,comm
$ ps -eopid,tt,user,fname,tmout,f,wchan   

Print only the process IDs of process syslogd:

$ ps -C syslogd -o pid=
 #ps -C <process_name> -o pid=

Print only the name of PID 42:

$ ps -p 42 -o comm=
  #ps -p <process_id> -o comm=

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