What is ps aux?

May 29th, 2009 by uCertify Leave a reply »

ps aux is a command-line utility that is used to display the information (such as user of the process, the PID, the percentage of CPU used by the process, the percentage of memory used by the process, STAT, etc.) about a running process. STAT is the process state code, which includes the following codes:

Code Description
D Uninterruptible sleep
N Low priority
R In run queue
S Sleeping
T Traced
Z Defunct
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