[mdlug] Difference between ps aux & ps auxw
Mat Enders
mat.enders at gmail.com
Tue May 15 07:41:22 EDT 2012
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Brian Brodsky
<brianbrodsky at ameritech.net>wrote:
> In the past I found w to limiting and used ps aux --width 255 instead.
> Now instead of BSD style I have switched back to AT & T Unix style
> instead and use ps -ef. I find the information more useful especially
> the parent process id.
>
> ps -ef does not tell you the CPU and MEMORY being used by individual
processes
menders-laptop menders # ps aux | grep [U]SER
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
menders-laptop menders # ps -ef | grep [U]ID
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
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