While on the (now hijacked) subject of useful ps outputs I'll throw one of mine out there ps ajfx will show you the parent/child association of various processes which can make it easier to trace back processes and see what started them. If some program is spawning a bunch of processes that are causing problems you can find the source that is spawning them with this and stop the problem at the source. On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 10:38 -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:21:31AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Chris Schumann wrote: > > Yes -- that's what Steve said. I tried it and I loved it. It looks > > really great. There are some things I don't understand about the > > processes it is showing -- like the one firefox job appears maybe seven > > times, each accounting for 32% of memory. Maybe that's one per firefox > > window, but that seems wrong. "ps" only shows it once and the PIDs for > > the extra firefox processes do not show up. > > Those are the other threads. Run 'ps axH' if you want to see them > with the 'old' tool 8^) > > Cheers, > florin > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101020/8b9f7faf/attachment.htm