Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:09:12 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com> To: John Oxley <john.oxley@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Process tracking Message-ID: <20050509190911.GB2626@tikitechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <ba2001e5050509065123321fe0@mail.gmail.com> References: <ba2001e5050509065123321fe0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:51:30PM +0200, John Oxley wrote:
> Right, when i run top I see perl grazing 50% of my CPU. How do I find
> out what process actually launched that.
Simply running ps with appropriate options (my favorites being -auxww)
will let you see the command line and parameters which usually tells
you how perl was invoked. If you use the above options, the most CPU
intensive task will appear at the top of the list:
ps -auxww | head
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