ItemDescriptionUSERUser login namePIDProcess IDPPIDParent process IDCCPU utilization of processSTIMEStart time of process USER PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 Jun 28 - 3:23 /etc/init root 1588 6963 0 Jun 28 - 0:02 /usr/etc/biod 6 root 2280 1 0 Jun 28 - 1:39 /etc/syncd 60 mary 2413 16998 2 07:57:30 - 0:05 aixterm mary 11632 16998 0 07:57:31 lft/1 0:01 xbiff mary 16260 2413 1 07:57:35 pts/1 0:00 /bin/ksh mary 16469 1 0 07:57:12 lft/1 0:00 ksh /usr/lpp/X11/bin/xinit mary 19402 16260 20 09:37:21 pts/1 0:00 ps -ef 0Controlling workstation for the process USER PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 Jun 28 - 3:23 /etc/init root 1588 6963 0 Jun 28 - 0:02 /usr/etc/biod 6 root 2280 1 0 Jun 28 - 1:39 /etc/syncd 60 mary 2413 16998 2 07:57:30 - 0:05 aixterm mary 11632 16998 0 07:57:31 lft/1 0:01 xbiff mary 16260 2413 1 07:57:35 pts/1 0:00 /bin/ksh mary 16469 1 0 07:57:12 lft/1 0:00 ksh /usr/lpp/X11/bin/xinit mary 19402 16260 20 09:37:21 pts/1 0:00 ps -ef 1Total execution time for the process USER PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 Jun 28 - 3:23 /etc/init root 1588 6963 0 Jun 28 - 0:02 /usr/etc/biod 6 root 2280 1 0 Jun 28 - 1:39 /etc/syncd 60 mary 2413 16998 2 07:57:30 - 0:05 aixterm mary 11632 16998 0 07:57:31 lft/1 0:01 xbiff mary 16260 2413 1 07:57:35 pts/1 0:00 /bin/ksh mary 16469 1 0 07:57:12 lft/1 0:00 ksh /usr/lpp/X11/bin/xinit mary 19402 16260 20 09:37:21 pts/1 0:00 ps -ef 2Command
In the previous example, the process ID for the ps -ef command is USER PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 Jun 28 - 3:23 /etc/init root 1588 6963 0 Jun 28 - 0:02 /usr/etc/biod 6 root 2280 1 0 Jun 28 - 1:39 /etc/syncd 60 mary 2413 16998 2 07:57:30 - 0:05 aixterm mary 11632 16998 0 07:57:31 lft/1 0:01 xbiff mary 16260 2413 1 07:57:35 pts/1 0:00 /bin/ksh mary 16469 1 0 07:57:12 lft/1 0:00 ksh /usr/lpp/X11/bin/xinit mary 19402 16260 20 09:37:21 pts/1 0:00 ps -ef 3. Its parent process ID is USER PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 Jun 28 - 3:23 /etc/init root 1588 6963 0 Jun 28 - 0:02 /usr/etc/biod 6 root 2280 1 0 Jun 28 - 1:39 /etc/syncd 60 mary 2413 16998 2 07:57:30 - 0:05 aixterm mary 11632 16998 0 07:57:31 lft/1 0:01 xbiff mary 16260 2413 1 07:57:35 pts/1 0:00 /bin/ksh mary 16469 1 0 07:57:12 lft/1 0:00 ksh /usr/lpp/X11/bin/xinit mary 19402 16260 20 09:37:21 pts/1 0:00 ps -ef 4, the /bin/ksh command.
If the listing is very long, the top portion scrolls off the screen. To display the listing one page (screen) at a time, pipe the ps command to the pg command. At the prompt, type the following:ps -ef | pg
To display status information of all processes running on your system, at the prompt, type the following:ps gv
This form of the command lists a number of statistics for each active process. Output from this command looks similar to the following: PID TTY STAT TIME PGIN SIZE RSS LIM TSIZ TRS %CPU %MEM COMMAND 0 - A 0:44 7 8 8 xx 0 0 0.0 0.0 swapper 1 - A 1:29 518 244 140 xx 21 24 0.1 1.0 /etc/init 771 - A 1:22 0 16 16 xx 0 0 0.0 0.0 kproc 1028 - A 0:00 10 16 8 xx 0 0 0.0 0.0 kproc 1503 - A 0:33 127 16 8 xx 0 0 0.0 0.0 kproc 1679 - A 1:03 282 192 12 32768 130 0 0.7 0.0 pcidossvr 2089 - A 0:22 918 72 28 xx 1 4 0.0 0.0 /etc/sync 2784 - A 0:00 9 16 8 xx 0 0 0.0 0.0 kproc 2816 - A 5:59 6436 2664 616 8 852 156 0.4 4.0 /usr/lpp/ 3115 - A 0:27 955 264 128 xx 39 36 0.0 1.0 /usr/lib/ 3451 - A 0:00 0 16 8 xx 0 0 0.0 0.0 kproc 3812 - A 0:00 21 128 12 32768 34 0 0.0 0.0 usr/lib/lpd/ 3970 - A 0:00 0 16 8 xx 0 0 0.0 0.0 kproc 4267 - A 0:01 169 132 72 32768 16 16 0.0 0.0 /etc/sysl 4514 lft/0 A 0:00 60 200 72 xx 39 60 0.0 0.0 /etc/gett 4776 pts/3 A 0:02 250 108 280 8 303 268 0.0 2.0 -ksh 5050 - A 0:09 1200 424 132 32768 243 56 0.0 1.0 /usr/sbin 5322 - A 0:27 1299 156 192 xx 24 24 0.0 1.0 /etc/cron 5590 - A 0:00 2 100 12 32768 11 0 0.0 0.0 /etc/writ 5749 - A 0:00 0 208 12 xx 13 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/lpp/ 6111 - T 0:00 66 108 12 32768 47 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/lpp/