plan9 man page for ps

PS(1)							      General Commands Manual							     PS(1)

NAME
       ps, psu - process status

SYNOPSIS
       ps

       psu [ user ]

DESCRIPTION
       Ps prints information about processes.  Psu prints only information about processes started by user (default $user).

       For  each  process  reported, the user, process id, user time, system time, size, state, and command name are printed.  State is one of the
       following:

       Moribund      Process has exited and is about to have its resources reclaimed.

       Ready	     on the queue of processes ready to be run.

       Scheding      about to be run.

       Running	     running.

       Queueing      waiting on a queue for a resource.

       Wakeme	     waiting for I/O or some other kernel event to wake it up.

       Broken	     dead of unnatural causes; lingering so that it can be examined.

       Stopped	     stopped.

       Stopwait      waiting for another process to stop.

       Fault	     servicing a page fault.

       Idle	     waiting for something to do (kernel processes only).

       New	     being created.

       Pageout	     paging out some other process.

       Syscall	     performing the named system call.

       no resource   waiting for more of a critical resource.

FILES
       /proc/*/status

SOURCE
       /sys/src/cmd/ps.c
       /rc/bin/psu

SEE ALSO
       kill(1), db(1), ps(1), proc(3)

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