NAME

	ps, psu – process status

SYNOPSIS

	ps [ −pa ] psu [ −pa ] [ user ]

DESCRIPTION

Ps prints information about processes. Psu prints only information about processes started by user (default $USER). For each process reported, the user, process id, user time, system time, size, state, and command name are printed. State is one of the following: Moribund   Process has exited and is about to have its resources reclaimed. Ready      on the queue of processes ready to be run. Scheding   about to be run. Running    running. Queueing   waiting on a queue for a resource. Wakeme     waiting for I/O or some other kernel event to wake it up. Broken     dead of unnatural causes; lingering so that it can be examined. Stopped    stopped. Stopwait   waiting for another process to stop. Fault      servicing a page fault. Idle      waiting for something to do (kernel processes only). New       being created. Pageout    paging out some other process. Syscall     performing the named system call. no resource   waiting for more of a critical resource. wchan      waiting on the named wait channel (on a Unix kernel). With the −p flag, ps also prints, after the system time, the baseline and current priorities of each process. The −a flag causes ps to print the arguments for the process. Newlines in arguments will be translated to spaces for display.

SOURCE

	/usr/local/plan9/bin/ps /usr/local/plan9/bin/psu

SEE ALSO

	acid(1), db(1), kill(1)