Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:17:21 +0100 From: "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: number of processes reported by top versus ps Message-ID: <14989d6e0702150017y478faaf3o28d92c53e7faa81a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070215022008.I26610@prime.gushi.org> References: <20070215022008.I26610@prime.gushi.org>
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On 15/02/07, Dan Mahoney, System Admin <danm@prime.gushi.org> wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm getting about a hundred more processes reported by ps aux|wc -l versus > the total number of processes in top. Is this a "normal" thing? My > system's been under some heavy load in the past couple days, but it's all > presumably stable now. ps -aux and top hide different processes by default. Use top -S to show all system processes, too. This is the same as doing a ps -auxH Read the manpages of both commands for more information of what all these options do. > > -Dan > HTH Christian
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