Viewing processes

You have several options for viewing processes:

• view all processes

• view by one or more attributes

• view by attribute value

• view sorted by PID, user, tty, or command

• customize the attributes displayed

Viewing all processes

In the Process Manager, select View All. This is the default view, so this selection is useful if you have changed the view and you want to return to the default.

See also:

• ps(1)

Viewing processes by attributes

In the Process Manager, make one of the following selections:

To view processes associated with:	Select:
a specific user	ViewBy User
a specific terminal	ViewBy Tty
a specific process ID	ViewBy Pid

To view processes by a set of extended attributes, select View Attributes. The extended attributes are shown in ``Process attributes'' You also have the option of clicking on buttons that select a set of attributes (a Default is automatically selected), including Ownership.

Select an attribute in the ``Available'' column and click on the Add button. To remove an attribute from your view, select it from the ``Selected'' column and click on the Remove button. To search for a specific attribute, enter it in the ``Search for:'' field.

Process attributes

Attribute	Definition
Ruser	real user ID
Tty	controlling port number
Group	group name
Pid	process ID number
Ppid	parent process ID number
Nice	nice(1) value
Time	cumulative execution time for the process
Pcpu	percentage of CPU time used
Vsize	virtual memory size in kilobytes
Pgid	parent group ID number
Etime	time elapsed since the process started
Args	command name with its arguments
User	user name
Command	command being run (no arguments)

See also:

• ps(1)

Viewing/finding processes by attribute values

In the Process Manager, select View Attribute_Filter, or to find a specific process, select Process Find Attribute.

1. Select the desired attribute from the displayed list.

2. Click on the desired relation (Equal to can be selected with either of the Less than or Greater than buttons.

3. Enter the desired value.

4. When using the Find Attribute selection, use the Find Next or Find All buttons. With the Attribute filter selection, click on the Enable Filter button. If this button is left selected, it will affect the view for all subsequent sessions.

See also:

• ps(1)

Sorting processes

In the Process Manager, select View Sort.

Select the desired sort attribute from the list, then click on a button to select Increasing or Decreasing order. The None button disables ordering.

Customizing the Process Manager display

You can easily customize the information displayed by the Process Manager by selecting Options Customize Attributes. The default display includes the process ID, user name, tty, and command name. You can add or delete fields as desired.

Change the following:

• list of attributes

• attribute labels

• field width

• data type (alphabetic, octal, integer, hexadecimal)

To change the set of available attributes, see ``Viewing processes by attributes''.

To reset to the default field widths, use the Defaults button.

Click on Apply to update the display.