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Describe the sorting options in better and more complete detail.

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Also improve the description of `-L' a little.

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Garance A Drosehn 2004-03-31 23:51:12 +00:00
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The
.Nm
utility
displays a header line followed by lines containing information about your
displays a header line, followed by lines containing information about
all of your
processes that have controlling terminals.
This information is sorted by controlling terminal, then by process
.Tn ID .
.Pp
A different set of processes can be selected for display by using any
combination of the
@ -83,6 +82,24 @@ If more than one of these options are given, then
will select all processes which are matched by at least one of the
given options.
.Pp
For the processes which have been selected for display,
.Nm
will usually display one line per process.
The
.Fl H
option may result in multiple output lines (one line per thread) for
some processes.
By default all of these output lines are sorted first by controlling
terminal, then by process
.Tn ID .
The
.Fl m, r, u,
and
.Fl v
options will change the sort order.
If more than one sorting option was given, then the selected processes
will be sorted by the last sorting option which was specified.
.Pp
For the processes which have been selected for display, the information
to display is selected based on a set of keywords (see the
.Fl L
@ -141,7 +158,11 @@ header per page of information.
Print information associated with the following keywords:
user, pid, ppid, pgid, jobc, state, tt, time and command.
.It Fl L
List the set of available keywords.
List the set of keywords available for the
.Fl O
and
.Fl o
options.
.It Fl l
Display information associated with the following keywords:
uid, pid, ppid, cpu, pri, nice, vsz, rss, mwchan, state, tt, time
@ -150,7 +171,8 @@ and command.
Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core
instead of the currently running system.
.It Fl m
Sort by memory usage, instead of by process
Sort by memory usage, instead of the combination of controlling
terminal and process
.Tn ID .
.It Fl N
Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default,
@ -177,7 +199,8 @@ the standard header.
Display information about processes which match the specified process
.Tn ID(s) .
.It Fl r
Sort by current cpu usage, instead of by process
Sort by current cpu usage, instead of the combination of controlling
terminal and process
.Tn ID .
.It Fl S
Change the way the process time is calculated by summing all exited