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But aux gives you the %CPU and %MEM columns in addition to what -ef gives you. That's a winner for why I would always opt for using aux. Often times when I am
by UnoriginalGuy 11y ago
But aux gives you the %CPU and %MEM columns in addition to what -ef gives you. That's a winner for why I would always opt for using aux.
Often times when I am running ps that's exactly the information I want to see.
I guess you could argue ef's length as an advantage but if you're on a 1080 screen, meh.
- gknoy 11y agoI only recently learned that fax` prints a tree of processes! Not always what I want, but good to find which python processes are the ones I want to kill, and which are not. :)
- thrownaway2424 11y agoWhoa! I always use pstree for that.
- bigger_cheese 11y ago-ef shows you the parent pid which aux doesn't. My usage for ps tends to be to get pid information so I can kill processes with it. When a misbehaving parents spawns a lot of children easier to kill the parent. I use 'w' command if I want CPU info.