Command to view all processes and their information ps aux

Commands

ps

View all user processes

ps -e

View all processes

ps aux

viewing user processes with auxiliary information

Fields

USER

Who is running this process

PID

PID of the process

%CPU

How much of the CPU this process is using

%MEM

How much of the RAM this process is using

VSZ

Total paged memory in KB

RSS

Total physical memory in KB

STAT

S: Waiting R: Running 1: multithreaded +: foreground process

START

When the process was started

TIME

How long the process has been running

COMMAND

Name of executable created by this process