How to list processes?

[carbon333]

You can do this by typing:

ps aux

in the terminal.

 

[bashcommando]

top
or
htop
Works well too

 

[Yitao Li]

It depends on which UNIX you are using...

"ps aux" would be the BSD syntax -- "a" for "all processes", "u" for "user format, "x" for lifting the "must have a tty" restriction

"ps -ef" would be the Unix98 syntax -- "-e" for selecting all processes, "-f" for full-format listing.

If I remember correctly : FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD would support the BSD syntax only, while many other distributions would support both types of syntaxes.

 

[GildeNam]

To get information about all processes running on the system use ps -A.

The top command is, like ps, used to display running processes, but it updates its display every few seconds.

Source:
ps command
top command

 

[edward_haigh]

I would say go ahead with # ps - a

Here is an article to explain it in more detail;

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/show-all-running-processes-in-linux/

 

[Jefff]

Here's a way to get the top 10 CPU processes:

/bin/ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -10

And if you are looking for a specific process, this example uses apache.

ps aux | grep apache

 

[jerz4lunch]

ps ax

OR

top

But I use the first one more.