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Old 03-10-2011
how to know the running processes.
Hi can anybody help me regarding this..

i want know the output of ps -ef with explanation.
how can we know the running processess.
this is the output of ps -elf
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD
19 T root 0 0 0 0 SY ? 0 Dec 12 ? 1:05 sched

can anybody explain the headers?

thank you in advance.

regards
rajesh
Last edited by rajesh_pola; 03-10-2011 at 10:45 AM.. Reason: add one more question
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Old 03-10-2011
See "man ps" for whatever Operating System you are running. The detailed meaning of some of the columns (like "SZ") varies from unix to unix.
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