New Colorized(optional) PS, a enhanced version of PS with advanced searching capabilities.
The search criteria can be any of the following.
- command
- EUID set
- EGID set
- JID
- is a kernel process
- percent of memory usage
- percent of CPU usage
- RSS
- VSZ
- is swapped out
- process state
- CPU time in seconds
- UID or username
- wait channel
- is a zombie process
-c <regex> Search procs using the matching regex.
--ci Invert the command search.
--cf Show children minor faults.
--cF Show children major faults.
--eg Search for proccs with a EGID set.
--egi Invert the EGID set search.
--eu Search for proccs with a EUID set.
--eui Invert the EUID set search.
-f Show minor faults.
-F Show major faults.
-J Show jail IDs.
-j <jids> A comma seperated list of JIDs to search for.
--ji Invert the JIDs earch.
--idle Show the idle kernel process.
--kern Searches for kernel processes.
--kerni Invert the kernel process search.
-m <pctmem> Memory usage percent to search for.
--mi Invert the memory usage search.
-n Show number of threads.
--nc disable color.
-p <pctcpu> CPU usage percent to search for.
--pi Invert the CPU usage search.
--pid <pids> PIDs to search for.
--pidi Invert the PID search.
-r <RSSs> A comma seperated list of RSS values to search for.
--ri Invert the RSS search.
-s Show swapped out procs.
--si Invert the swapped out search.
--self Show the the ncps process as well.
--st <states> A comma seperated list of states to search for.
--sti Invert the state search.
--stats Print some general states about CPU usage and memory usage.
-t <times> A comma seperated value of time, in seconds, to search for.
--ti Invert the time search.
--tty Show TTYs.
-u <UIDs> A comma seperated list of UIDs or usernames.
--ui Invert the UID/username search.
-vs <VSZs> A comma seperated list of VSZs to search for.
--vsi Invert the VSZ search.
-w <wchans> A string search for wait channels.
--wi Invert the wait channel search.
-z Show zombies procs.
For the various switches above that can take numeric values,
the equalities below can be used, by directly prepending them to
the number.
<
<=
>
>=
!
The enviromental variables below may be set to set the default for the flag in question.
Unless set to defined ands set to 1, these will default to 0.
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| NCPS_jid | Sets the default for the -J flag. |
| NCPS_numthr | Sets the default for the -n flag. |
| NCPS_cmajflt | Sets the default for the --cF flag. |
| NCPS_majflt | Sets the default for the -F flag. |
| NCPS_cminflt | Sets the default for the --cf flag. |
| NCPS_minflt | Sets the default for the -f flag. |
| NCPS_tty | Sets the default for the --tty flag. |
| NCPS_self | Sets the default for the --self flag. |
| NCPS_idle | Sets the default for the --idle flag. |
| NO_COLOR | Don't colorize the output. |
ncps -J -j 0 --ji
Display all processes with a jail ID other than zero.
ncps -c firefox --stats
Show all firefox processes and the stats for them.
ncps -F -f -cF -cf
Show all minor/major values for processes.
ncps -p '>1'
Show all processes using more than 1% of the CPU time.
pkg install perl5 p5-App-cpanminus
cpanm Proc::ProcessTable::ncps
yum install cpanm
cpanm Proc::ProcessTable::ncps
This has been tested as working on Debian 9 minimal.
apt install perl perl-base perl-modules make cpanminus gcc
cpanm Proc::ProcessTable::ncps