Managing System Information, Processes, and Performance in Oracle^® Solaris 11.3

List processes.

Use the ps command to list all the processes on a system.

Display information about processes.

Use the pgrep command to obtain the process IDs of the processes that you want to display more information about.

Control processes.

Locate processes by using the pgrep command. Then, use the appropriate pcommand (/proc) to control the process. For a description of the /proc commands, see Figure 3, Table 3, Process Commands (/proc).

Kill a process.

Locate a process, either by process name or process ID. You can use either the pkill or kill commands to terminate the process.