Re: Solaris 10

["Mick Timony-3" <user=1504@nabble.blu.org>]

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 12:33 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: 

> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:53:11AM -0500, [hidden email] wrote: 
> > The now habitual, "ps ax" doesn't work on solaris, you have to use "ps 
> > -e." Which is a pain. 
> 
> Solaris is a SysV-based Unix, and has stayed fairly consistent to 
> that, unlike some other modern Unixen which support a blend of the two 
> interfaces (SysV and BSD)...  FWIW, ps -e works on Linux too, and I'd 
> suggest also adding -lf for more interesting output.  That combination 
> does actually show some interesting info that ps ax or even ps aux 
> does not...  The -lf options show parent process relationships and 
> nice values, while ps aux shows memory and cpu usage, which are all 
> interesting when your system is misbehaving and you're trying to find 
> out why...