1 .TH PS 1
2 .SH NAME
3 ps, psu \- process status
4 .SH SYNOPSIS
5 .B ps
6 [
7 .B -pa
8 ]
9 .PP
10 .B psu
11 [
12 .B -pa
13 ]
14 [
15 .I user
16 ]
17 .SH DESCRIPTION
18 .I Ps
19 prints information about processes.
20 .I Psu
21 prints only information about processes started by
22 .I user
23 (default
24 .BR $USER ).
25 .PP
26 For each process reported,
27 the user,
28 process id,
29 user time,
30 system time,
31 size,
32 state,
33 and command name are printed.
34 State is one of the following:
35 .TP \w'\fLno\ \fIresource\ \ \ 'u
36 .B Moribund
37 Process has exited and is about to have its
38 resources reclaimed.
39 .TP
40 .B Ready
41 on the queue of processes ready to be run.
42 .TP
43 .B Scheding
44 about to be run.
45 .TP
46 .B Running
47 running.
48 .TP
49 .B Queueing
50 waiting on a queue for a resource.
51 .TP
52 .B Wakeme
53 waiting for I/O or some other kernel event to wake it up.
54 .TP
55 .B Broken
56 dead of unnatural causes; lingering
57 so that it can be examined.
58 .TP
59 .B Stopped
60 stopped.
61 .TP
62 .B Stopwait
63 waiting for another process to stop.
64 .TP
65 .B Fault
66 servicing a page fault.
67 .TP
68 .B Idle
69 waiting for something to do (kernel processes only).
70 .TP
71 .B New
72 being created.
73 .TP
74 .B Pageout
75 paging out some other process.
76 .TP
77 .I Syscall
78 performing the named system call.
79 .TP
80 .BI no " resource
81 waiting for more of a critical
82 .IR resource .
83 .TP
84 .I wchan
85 waiting on the named wait channel
86 (on a Unix kernel).
87 .PD
88 .PP
89 With the
90 .B -p
91 flag,
92 .I ps
93 also prints, after the system time, the baseline and current priorities of each process.
94 .PP
95 The
96 .B -a
97 flag causes
98 .I ps
99 to print the arguments for the process.  Newlines in arguments will be translated to spaces for display.
100 .SH SOURCE
101 .B \*9/bin/ps
102 .br
103 .B \*9/bin/psu
104 .SH "SEE ALSO"
105 .MR acid (1) ,
106 .MR db (1) ,
107 .MR kill (1)