View Processes (Sun Management Center 3.6.1 User's Guide)

Sun Management Center 3.6.1 User's Guide

View Processes

The View Processes application in Figure 6–1 enables you to view and select detailed information about processes running on the selected host or node.

The Solaris Process Details module must be loaded to use the Process Viewer. For instructions, see To Load a Module. If the Solaris Process Details module is not loaded when you click the Applications tab, you must do the following:

Close the Details window.
Load the Solaris Process Details module.
Reopen the Details window.

Figure 6–1 Process Viewer

Details window with Applications tab selected shows Process information.

The following table lists the properties that are available in the Process Viewer.

Table 6–3 Process Viewer Properties


Property	Description
PID	Process Identifier
PPID	Process ID of the parent process
UID	Effective user ID number
User	Effective user login name
EUser	Effective user ID
Group ID	Group ID of the user
EGroup	Effective group ID of the user
Session ID	Process ID of the session leader
PGroup	Process ID of the process group leader
Tty	Terminal that controls the process. A question mark (`?`) is printed when there is no controlling terminal.
Start time	Time that the process started, in hours, minutes, and seconds. The start time for a process that is more than 24 hours old is given in months and days.
Time	Cumulative execution time for the process
State	State of the process
Wait Channel	Address of an event for which the process is sleeping. If blank, the process is running.
Class	Scheduling class of the process
Address	Memory address of the process
Size	Size in pages in main memory for the image of the swappable process
Priority	Priority of the process
Nice	Decimal value of the system scheduling priority of the process
CPU%	Ratio of CPU time used recently to CPU time that was available in the same period, expressed as a percentage
Memory%	Ratio of the process's resident set size to the physical memory on the machine, expressed as a percentage
Command	Command name
CommandLine	Full command name and its arguments, up to a limit of 80 characters

Process Statistics Window

The Output For Process ID window displays the statistics for either pmap, pstack, pfiles, or pldd for any highlighted process in the Process View window.

pmap: Prints the address space map of each process
pstack: Prints a stack trace for each lightweight process (lwp) in each process
pfiles: Reports fstat and fcntl information for all open files in each process
pldd: Prints dynamic libraries for the process

Process Summary Field

The Process Summary field lists statistics for all processes, active or inactive.