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) PS(1)