Process resources consumption status

[amarsafy]

Hi,
Using the "ps aux" command does not reflect the actual resources consumed by a process, do I use wrong switches or is there any other commands to use?

ps aux sample:
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TTY STAT STIME TIME COMMAND
root 774 46.4 0.0 12 8108 - A Apr 15 62712:37 kproc
root 516 46.1 0.0 12 8108 - A Apr 15 62239:27 kproc
serveng 37344 3.6 0.0 5908 932 - A May 13 1980:19 ./MessageServer
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serveng 35726 0.4 0.0 19028 5392 - A May 13 226:31 ./nts_server -ap
p
serveng 39136 0.4 0.0 18096 5732 - A May 27 53:01 ./nts_server -app

 

[MoshiachNow]

Try the following that will show you the top 10 memory users by process:

ps auxw | sort –r +3 |head –10

Same by CPU usage:

ps auxw | sort –r +2 |head –10

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[Jonsie123]

Why don't you try monitor or topas. Thease are excellent tools.

Cheers

 

[amarsafy]

Hi,
Thank you all for your help, I tried "topas" and it gave me accurate data.

I found as well a tool called "nmon" which can be downloaded from IBM

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/articles/nmon_analyser/#4

which gives a detailed infor as well.

cheers, Aly