PS Column Descriptions

Question 1

%cpu

Answer 1

percentage CPU usage (alias pcpu)

Question 2

%mem

Answer 2

percentage memory usage (alias pmem)

Question 3

acflag

Answer 3

accounting flag (alias acflg)

Question 4

args

Answer 4

command and arguments

Question 5

comm

Answer 5

command

Question 6

command

Answer 6

command and arguments

Question 7

cpu

Answer 7

shot-term CPU usage factor (for scheduling)

Question 8

etime

Answer 8

elapsed runnning time

Question 9

flags

Answer 9

the process flags, in hexadecimal (alias f)

Question 10

gid

Answer 10

process group id (alias group)

Question 11

inblk

Answer 11

total blacks read (alias inblock)

Question 12

jobc

Answer 12

job control count

Question 13

ktrace

Answer 13

tracing flags

Question 14

ktracep

Answer 14

tracing vnode

Question 15

lim

Answer 15

memoryuse limit

Question 16

logname

Answer 16

login name of user who started the session

Question 17

lstart

Answer 17

time started

Question 18

majflt

Answer 18

total page faults

Question 19

minflt

Answer 19

total page reclaims

Question 20

msgrcv

Answer 20

total messages received (reads from pipes/sockets)

Question 21

msgsnd

Answer 21

total messages sent (writes on pipes/sockets)

Question 22

nice

Answer 22

nice value (alias ni)

Question 23

nivcsw

Answer 23

total involuntary context switches

Question 24

nsigs

Answer 24

total signals taken (alias nsignals)

Question 25

nswap

Answer 25

total swaps in/out

Question 26

nvcsw

Answer 26

total voluntary context switches

Question 27

nwchan

Answer 27

wait channel (as an address)

Question 28

oublk

Answer 28

total blocks written (alias oublock)

Question 29

p_ru

Answer 29

resource usage (valid only for zombie)

Question 30

paddr

Answer 30

swap address

Question 31

pagein

Answer 31

pageins (same as majflt)

Question 32

pgid

Answer 32

process group number

Question 33

pid

Answer 33

process ID

Question 34

ppid

Answer 34

parent process ID

Question 35

pri

Answer 35

scheduling priority

Question 36

re

Answer 36

core residency time (in seconds; 127 = infinity)

Question 37

rgid

Answer 37

real group ID

Question 38

rss

Answer 38

resident set size

Question 39

ruid

Answer 39

real user ID

Question 40

ruser

Answer 40

user name (from ruid)

Question 41

sess

Answer 41

session ID

Question 42

sig

Answer 42

pending signals (alias pending)

Question 43

sigmask

Answer 43

blocked signals (alias blocked)

Question 44

sl

Answer 44

sleep time (in seconds; 127 = infinity

Question 45

start

Answer 45

time started

Question 46

state

Answer 46

symbolic process state (alias stat)

Question 47

svgid

Answer 47

saved grid from a setgid executable

Question 48

svuid

Answer 48

saved UID from a setuid executable

Question 49

tdev

Answer 49

control terminal device number

Question 50

time

Answer 50

accumulated CPU time, user + system (alias cputime)

Question 51

tpgid

Answer 51

control terminal process group ID

Question 52

tsess

Answer 52

control terminal session ID

Question 53

tsiz

Answer 53

text size (in Kbytes)

Question 54

tt

Answer 54

control terminal name (two letter abbreviation)

Question 55

tty

Answer 55

full name of control terminal

Question 56

ucomm

Answer 56

name to be used for accouting

Question 57

uid

Answer 57

effective user ID

Question 58

upr

Answer 58

scheduling priority on return from system call (alias usrpri)

Question 59

user

Answer 59

user name (from UID)

Question 60

utime

Answer 60

user CPU time (alias putime)

Question 61

vsz

Answer 61

virtual size in Kbytes (alias vsize)

Question 62

wchan

Answer 62

wait channel (as a symbolic name)

Question 63

wq

Answer 63

total number of workqueue threads

Question 64

wqb

Answer 64

number of blocked workqueue threads

Question 65

wqr

Answer 65

number of running workqueue threads

Question 66

wql

Answer 66

workqueue limit status (C = constrained thread limit, T = total thread limit)

Question 67

xstat

Answer 67

exit or stop status (valid only for stopped or zombie process)