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output=$(ps -ef|grep -i java 2>/dev/null); for w in ${output[@]}; do if [[ $w =~ .*Xmx.* ]]; then result=$(grep -oP "[0-9]+" <<< $w); echo $result ;fi ; done| awk 'BEGIN {sum=0} {for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) sum+=$i } END {print sum}'

2013-08-13 14:04:17

User: massiverobot

Functions: awk echo grep ps

Tags: java jvm xmx

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all java -Xmx values in a system, add them up

This will find all the -Xmx[BIGINT] running on a system, add them up for you and give you the total.

svn ps svn:executable yes /web/itscripts/check_mail.plproperty

2013-08-12 16:30:51

User: kernel01

Functions: ps yes

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SVN - set exec bit on

Sets the exec bit on a file.

$ ps -LF -u user

2013-08-06 21:50:48

User: jld

Functions: ps

Tags: bash processes

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Threads and processes of a user

Piping ps into grep is mostly useless: ps has its own filter options like -u and -C

psgrep() { ps aux | tee >(head -1>&2) | grep -v " grep [email protected]" | grep "[email protected]" -i --color=auto; }

2013-08-02 12:44:32

User: fnl

Functions: grep head ps tee

Tags: grep ps

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psgrep(command)

Pipes the header row of ps to STDERR, then greps for the command on the output of ps, removing the grep entry before that.

ps -eLF | grep ^user

2013-07-24 09:53:12

User: balsagoth

Functions: grep ps

Tags: bash processes

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Threads and processes of a user

This shows all process (-e) and threads (-L) in full format (-F)

ps aux | grep $(echo $1 | sed "s/^$.$/[\1]/g")

2013-07-16 10:10:51

User: opexxx

Functions: echo grep ps sed

Tags: sed grep ps

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psgrepp

grep по ps aux

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ps -eo pid,lstart,cmd

2013-06-17 12:52:53

User: kruspemsv

Functions: ps

Tags: PID

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Discover the process start time

That is useful to discover the start time of process older than 1 day.

You can also run:

ls -ld /proc/PID

That's returning the creation date of the proc files from the process. Some users reported that this way might show you a wrong date since any other process like cron, for example, could change this date.

sudo lsof -p `sudo ps aux | grep -i neo4j | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'`

2013-06-02 10:15:30

User: andycunn

Functions: awk grep ps sudo

Tags: lsof process file descriptor ps grep

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View all file descriptors owned by a process

Inner "ps...grep..." command searches for a process matching the specified .

"lsof -p lists all file descriptors owned by . Includes open files, sockets, devices, etc...

ps aux | sort -n -k2 | awk '{if ($2 < 300) print($0)}'

2013-05-09 13:09:58

User: lili

Functions: awk ps sort

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Display the specified range of process information

Display all pid less the 300 processes info

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ps aux | awk '/chrome/ {s+=$6}END{print s/1024}';

2013-05-09 02:30:44

User: DaSheep

Functions: awk ps

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Chrome sucks

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ps -A -o rss,command | grep [C]hrome | awk '{sum+=$1} END {printf("%sMB\n",sum/1024)}'

2013-05-08 13:30:59

User: seanubis

Functions: awk grep ps

Tags: grep chrome

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Chrome sucks

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ps -o rss= -C Chrome | (x=0; while read rss; do ((x+=$rss)); done; echo $((x/1024)))

2013-05-08 07:22:03

User: sesom42

Functions: echo ps read

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Chrome sucks

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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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