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Old 10-05-2010
Process Name from PPID
Hi,

I am currently trying to pin down a process NAME (could be a cron job or a tty) in Solaris. First I obtained a pid and then a ppid. I want to take the PPID and from there find the program/process that is making the VSH go high (cpu usage). I am currently trying to go up the chain using PS cmd, is this the correct way or is there another?

Thank youSmilie
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Old 10-05-2010
Maybe try:
Code:
ptree $pid

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Old 10-05-2010
Process Name from PPID
Thank you Bartus11! I think this will help, just trying to find any switches that would tell us which child processes are hogging the cpu Smilie
 
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