ps aux columns

fachhoch@gmail.com · 03-11-2013, 12:26 PM

I wan tot understand my app server process

I know ps aux

it dsiplays

tomcat 4045 0.3 21.5 7481532 1644932 ? Sl Mar05

please help me understand what are the columns , I only know the cpu and mem utilization.
what does

Code:

7481532 1644932 ?     Sl

they stand for?

mandyapenguin · 03-11-2013, 01:16 PM

man ps

Code:

RSS	VSZ	TTY	STAT
7481532 1644932 ?       Sl

RSS: (Resident set size) the non-swapped physical memory that a task has used (in kiloBytes).
VSZ: Virtual memory size in KiB
TTY: Terminal that the process is running in
stat: process status
Check for PROCESS STATE CODES from the manual page

Code:

man ps
/PROCESS STATE CODES