Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual (G06.27+, H06.04+)

User Commands (p - r) ps(1)
time The cumulative CPU time of the process in the form [[dd-]hh:]mm:ss. The hh, mm, and
ss fields have the same definitions that they do for etime.
tty The name of the controling terminal of the process (if any). If no controlling terminal
is present, a question mark (?) is displayed
user The effective user ID of the process. This is the textual user ID.
vsz The size of the process in virtual memory in kilobytes as a decimal integer.
If you use the -l and -A flags together, a list of zombie processes also appears at the end of the
display (similar to the following):
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
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- 0000 xx xx xx - - - - - - - - <defunct>
Format Specifiers
The following list contains all format specifiers that can be used with the ps command. The
default header for each specifier appears in parentheses. Most of the headers can also be used as
format specifier synonyms.
args (COMMAND)
The command with all its arguments as a string. The ps command truncates this value
to the field width.
comm (COMMAND)
The name of the command being executed (argv[0] value) as a string.
etime (ELAPSED)
Elapsed time since the process was started.
group (GROUP)
Effective group ID of the process.
nice (NI) Process scheduling increment for the process.
pcpu The ratio of processor time used recently to processor time available in the same time
period. The meaning of the term "recently" as well as the meaning of "processor time
available" is implementation defined. This field has no meaning in the Guardian or
OSS environment.
pgid (PGID)
Process group ID of the process.
pid (PID)
Process ID of the process.
ppid (PPID)
Parent process ID of the process.
rgroup (RGROUP)
Real group ID of the process.
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