[mdlug] Difference between ps aux & ps auxw

[Brian Brodsky]

True. When I want that info I usually do a top.

On 5/15/2012 7:41 AM, Mat Enders wrote:
> 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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