| .TH PS 1 |
| .SH NAME |
| ps, psu \- process status |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B ps |
| [ |
| .B -pa |
| ] |
| .PP |
| .B psu |
| [ |
| .B -pa |
| ] |
| [ |
| .I user |
| ] |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .I Ps |
| prints information about processes. |
| .I Psu |
| prints only information about processes started by |
| .I user |
| (default |
| .BR $USER ). |
| .PP |
| 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: |
| .TP \w'\fLno\ \fIresource\ \ \ 'u |
| .B Moribund |
| Process has exited and is about to have its |
| resources reclaimed. |
| .TP |
| .B Ready |
| on the queue of processes ready to be run. |
| .TP |
| .B Scheding |
| about to be run. |
| .TP |
| .B Running |
| running. |
| .TP |
| .B Queueing |
| waiting on a queue for a resource. |
| .TP |
| .B Wakeme |
| waiting for I/O or some other kernel event to wake it up. |
| .TP |
| .B Broken |
| dead of unnatural causes; lingering |
| so that it can be examined. |
| .TP |
| .B Stopped |
| stopped. |
| .TP |
| .B Stopwait |
| waiting for another process to stop. |
| .TP |
| .B Fault |
| servicing a page fault. |
| .TP |
| .B Idle |
| waiting for something to do (kernel processes only). |
| .TP |
| .B New |
| being created. |
| .TP |
| .B Pageout |
| paging out some other process. |
| .TP |
| .I Syscall |
| performing the named system call. |
| .TP |
| .BI no " resource |
| waiting for more of a critical |
| .IR resource . |
| .TP |
| .I wchan |
| waiting on the named wait channel |
| (on a Unix kernel). |
| .PD |
| .PP |
| With the |
| .B -p |
| flag, |
| .I ps |
| also prints, after the system time, the baseline and current priorities of each process. |
| .PP |
| The |
| .B -a |
| flag causes |
| .I ps |
| to print the arguments for the process. Newlines in arguments will be translated to spaces for display. |
| .SH SOURCE |
| .B \*9/bin/ps |
| .br |
| .B \*9/bin/psu |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .IR acid (1), |
| .IR db (1), |
| .IR kill (1) |