ps for system

View information about system processes.

Signature

> ps {flags}

Flags

• --long, -l: list all available columns for each entry

Input/output types:

input	output
nothing	table

Examples

List the system processes

> ps

List the top 5 system processes with the highest memory usage

> ps | sort-by mem | last 5

List the top 3 system processes with the highest CPU usage

> ps | sort-by cpu | last 3

List the system processes with 'rsh' in their names

> ps | where name =~ 'rsh'

Get the parent process id of the current rsh process

> ps | where pid == $rsh.pid | get ppid