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Commands using ps

Terminal - Commands using ps - 184 results

ps -e -m -o user,pid,args,%mem,rss | grep Chrome | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if / (\d+)$/' | ( x=0;while read line; do (( x += $line )); done; echo $((x/1024)) );

2013-05-07 22:50:44

User: unixmonkey39631

Functions: echo grep perl ps read

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Chrome sucks

How much memory is chrome sucking?

renice -20 -g 2874 (2784 found with ps -Aj)

2013-05-07 14:55:42

User: techie

Functions: ps renice

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Renice a group of threads

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ps aux | grep [process] | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -I % ls /proc/%/fd | wc -l

2013-04-03 09:40:03

User: auser

Functions: awk grep ls ps wc xargs

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Get the number of open sockets for a process

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ps aux | grep <process> | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -i -t kill -9 {}

2013-02-27 12:33:30

User: szimbaro

Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs

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Kill a lot of process once a time

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ps auxw | grep sbin/apache | awk '{print"-p " $2}' | xargs strace -f

2013-02-19 19:14:57

User: msealand

Functions: awk grep ps strace xargs

Tags: awk token ps tokenizer

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easily strace all your apache processes

This version also attaches to new processes forked by the parent apache process. That way you can trace all current and *future* apache processes.

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ps -u user_name_here | grep process_name_here | wc -l

2013-02-07 01:46:29

User: TuxLyn

Functions: grep ps wc

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Count total processes for specific program and user

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ps -xaw -o state,ppid | grep Z | grep -v PID | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9

2013-01-09 04:21:54

User: terrywang

Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs

Tags: csh kill process FreeBSD zombie

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Kill all Zombie processes one-liner

Did some research and found the previous command wrong, we don't kill a zombie but its parent. Just made some modifcation to khashmeshab's command.

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ps axu | grep [a]pache2

2012-12-15 19:37:19

User: EBAH

Functions: grep ps

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grep processes list avoiding the grep itself

Trick to avoid the form:

grep process | grep - v grep

while true; do date; ps auxf | awk '{if($8=="D") print $0;}'; sleep 1; done

2012-12-14 12:07:06

User: vladfr

Functions: awk ps sleep

Tags: Linux nfs crimsonfu

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Find processes stuck in dreaded

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ps -ef | awk -v OFS="\n" '{ for (i=8;i<=NF;i++) line = (line ? line FS : "") $i; print NR ":", $1, $2, $7, line, ""; line = "" }'

2012-12-04 15:59:53

User: djangofan

Functions: awk ps

-8

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Pretty print output of

ps -eo size,pid,user,command --sort -size |awk '{hr[1024**2]="GB";hr[1024]="MB";for (x=1024**3; x>=1024; x/=1024){if ($1>=x){printf ("%-6.2f %s ", $1/x, hr[x]);break}}}{printf ("%-6s %-10s ", $2, $3)}{for (x=4;x<=NF;x++){printf ("%s ",$x)} print ("\n")}'

2012-11-27 04:29:08

User: rockon

Functions: awk ps

Tags: memory usage ps processes, high memory usage

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Find processes utilizing high memory in human readable format

Finding high memory usage report in human readable format.

ps aux --sort -rss | head

2012-11-14 17:47:50

User: unixmonkey42657

Functions: ps

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Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage

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for i in $(ps -eo pid|grep -v PID);do echo ""; echo -n "==$i== ";awk '/^read|^write/{ORS=" "; print}' /proc/$i/io 2>/dev/null; echo -n " ==$i=="; done|sort -nrk5|awk '{printf "%s\n%s %s\n%s %s\n%s\n\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6}'

2012-10-25 17:16:24

User: omatictost

Functions: awk echo grep ps sort

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Sort I/O activity by PID number.

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export proc=chrome && ps aux | grep $proc | grep -v grep |awk '{print $2}'

2012-10-16 07:19:36

User: bknarendra

Functions: awk export grep ps

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List process ids (including parent and child process) of a process given its name. Similar to pgrep

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ps axo %mem,pid,euser,cmd | sort -nr | head -n 10

2012-10-12 03:27:26

User: lainme

Functions: head ps sort

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Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage

A nicer display from http://www.web-manual.net/linux-3/find-out-top-10-cpu-memory-consuming-processes/

ps wwwwuax|awk '/command/ { printf("kill -9 %s\n",$2) }'|/bin/sh

2012-08-14 21:44:38

User: jetdillo

Functions: awk ps

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Kill all processes belonging to a user

Okay, commands like this are a bit of a personal peeve. awk(1) operates on a /pattern/ {action} paradigm and yet I see people leave out the /pattern/ portion of an awk command all the time, opting to use grep or sed instead. You'll save yourself some typing and time if you include the /pattern/ with your {action}.

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ps -fu $USER | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill [-9]

2012-07-06 21:17:01

User: carlossiscomtec

Functions: awk kill ps xargs

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Kill all processes belonging to a user

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ps auxww | grep application | grep processtobekilled | gawk '{print $2}' | grep -v grep | xargs kill -9

2012-07-03 20:37:56

User: j0sh10

Functions: gawk grep kill ps xargs

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Command to kill PID

You can also use gawk:

ps auxww | gawk '/application/' | gawk '/processtobekilled/' | gawk '{print $2}' | grep -v grep | xargs kill -9

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ps aux | awk '{if ($8 ~ "D") print $0}'

2012-05-25 16:53:57

User: SEJeff

Functions: awk ps

Tags: Linux nfs crimsonfu

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Find processes stuck in dreaded "D" state aka IO Wait

Lots of fun to run on nfs clients when the server or network connection is having issues

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kill -9 -$(ps x -o "%c %r" | awk '/svscan/{print $2}')

2012-05-25 16:39:02

User: SEJeff

Functions: awk kill ps

Tags: Linux kill commandlinefu crimsonfu

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Kill the process *group* containing a process named svscan (djb's daemontools)

Daemontools[1] won't always properly reap it's children. Sometimes when you need to kill the main svscan process, you want to also clean up all of it's children. The way to do that is to send a signal to the entire process group. It is a bit tricky

[1] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

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ps -e h -o pid --sort -pcpu | head -10 | vzpid -

2012-05-24 14:16:40

User: mrkmg

Functions: head ps

Tags: openvz

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See OpenVZ Container id's of top 10 running processes by %cpu

This command will list the PID, VEID, and Name of the 10 highest cpu using processes on a openvz host. You must have vzpid installed.

slow () { [ -n $1 ] && while ps -p $1 >/dev/null ; do kill -STOP $1; sleep 1; kill -CONT $1; sleep 1; done & }

2012-05-16 12:13:30

User: igorfu

Functions: kill ps sleep

Tags: io

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Slow down IO heavy process

Some IO intensive process make the system unresponsive. This function periodically starts/stops a process, which hopefully releases some resources for other activities.

This function is useful when ionice is not available

ps afx | grep defunct -B 1 | grep -Eo "[0-9]{3,}" | xargs kill -9

2012-04-27 16:16:34

User: pholz

Functions: grep kill ps xargs

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kill defunct processes by killing their parents

defunct processes (zombies) usually have to be killed by killing their parent processes. this command retrieves such zombies and their immediate parents and kills all of the matching processes.

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ps afx|grep [a]pache

2012-04-16 03:50:32

User: caruccio

Functions: grep ps

Tags: ps grep

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Remove grep itself from ps

When you 'ps|grep' for a given process, it turns out that grep itself appears as a valid line since it contains the RE/name you are looking for. To avoid grep from showing itself, simply insert some wildcard into process' name.

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_p(){ ps ax |grep $1 |sed '/grep.'"$1"'/d' |while read a;do printf ${a%% *}' ';printf "${a#* }" >&2;printf '\n';done;}

2012-04-01 19:46:19

User: argv

Functions: grep printf ps read sed

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w/o pgrep/pkill

proc lister

usage: p

proc killer

usage: p patt [signal]

uses only ps, grep, sed, printf and kill

no need for pgrep/pkill (not part of early UNIX)

_p(){

ps ax \

|grep $1 \

|sed '

/grep.'"$1"'/d' \

|while read a;do

printf ${a%% *}' ';

printf "${a#* }" >&2;

printf '\n';

done;

}

p(){

case $# in

ps ax |grep .|less -iE;

;;

_p $1;

;;

[23])

_p $1 2>/dev/null \

|sed '/'"$2"'/!d;

s,.*,kill -'"${3-15}"' &,'|sh -v

;;

esac;

}

alas, can't get this under 255 chars.

flatcap?

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