-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Amit Sharma writes: > Hi, > > I am unable to understand the following entry in TOP. Is it normal or > something that I need to do to get rid of it? > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 16737 amit 25 0 65964 1196 1084 R 99.7 0.0 1745:46 bash
The command is just the name of command, you'll probably need more detail (e.g. command-line, environment variables, etc.) to be able to precisely point out, what it's executing. For command-line: % cat /proc/$pid/cmdline |tr "\0" " " For environment: % cat /proc/$pid/environ |tr "\0" "\n" ps(1) can also provide this information, e.g. ps auxe HTH - -- Ashish SHUKLA “It has been said that a careful reading of Anna Karenina, if it teaches you nothing else, will teach you how to make strawberry jam.” (Julian Mitchell, "Radio Times", 30 October 1976) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJNNYtFAAoJEMdGz6nnT6SwQhUQAJn+zUc7s7fYMQiuMwGsVwbd OKetAY6chUNEiuAIcLolKpVZpL0cpIoUFem+q6eAWLEXgzoJgd+UpTaYIan5xIyp rJFqSweuV62r6xDwIH3n5evkowqOetppiJ8OcvbPOTUtZ2CH/RkPjQtRPfiDHqmA Nn3IlTt65j0s9LXnv4Dvos8YzjTINhIdtiWdIJ6zQbtJlBTkxWNaFqAwnMjAqQWi bKquIxilWohsRJ88NhJ8fFyfwxteTpnpqPduIf2v/PvyOwuReGrMN88kWIOLy5CE MaZYBo27WfIg7ovP5bxSJ6dbaw22czLLF1GWWcg6b/ROBZon0kAbj9boE/EXBGLe RfoKZcCvV2uDpit93+TddZhh/BdOIqmbJhQPSSiFdaqQzgRAiA7XoXQg0TSo23m3 4Osv/tgcC8+WLKtKvSANuY9e5vDYByNf7CAqNhYPHnhEorHCXm6/I/BwgSLsPP8k U5aQNEVwZ8/SyOWe/QxuO3ahOBWlFKXVt7KqoqwwUsb9gHOhw05M9ukWK2tSuCQI YoZH3eOb6ToaWhpnNN2n5rd/S9mUrJ3O8vmxd7T3i4wQLVDpdc33/pMFjN0T5dtF ZTZqreI0eTlH18pDm+wr4A13mrmgFAaWikxfthSUfPz2icgPNejUENCfBEecGP2m hxmhjiiZC6dp9P9w1XGt =/3be -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
