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1.1       root        1: .TH PS 1
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: ps, psu \- process status
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B ps
                      6: .PP
                      7: .B psu
                      8: [
                      9: .I user
                     10: ]
                     11: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     12: .I Ps
                     13: prints information about processes.
                     14: .I Psu
                     15: prints only information about processes started by
                     16: .I user
                     17: (default
                     18: .BR $user ).
                     19: .PP
                     20: For each process reported,
                     21: the user,
                     22: process id,
                     23: user time,
                     24: system time,
                     25: size,
                     26: state,
                     27: and command name are printed.
                     28: State is one of the following:
                     29: .TP \w'\fLno\ \fIresource\ \ \ 'u
                     30: .B Moribund
                     31: Process has exited and is about to have its
                     32: resources reclaimed.
                     33: .TP
                     34: .B Ready
                     35: on the queue of processes ready to be run.
                     36: .TP
                     37: .B Scheding
                     38: about to be run.
                     39: .TP
                     40: .B Running
                     41: running.
                     42: .TP
                     43: .B Queueing
                     44: waiting on a queue for a resource.
                     45: .TP
                     46: .B Wakeme
                     47: waiting for I/O or some other kernel event to wake it up.
                     48: .TP
                     49: .B Broken
                     50: dead of unnatural causes; lingering
                     51: so that it can be examined.
                     52: .TP
                     53: .B Stopped
                     54: stopped.
                     55: .TP
                     56: .B Stopwait
                     57: waiting for another process to stop.
                     58: .TP
                     59: .B Fault
                     60: servicing a page fault.
                     61: .TP
                     62: .B Idle
                     63: waiting for something to do (kernel processes only).
                     64: .TP
                     65: .B New
                     66: being created.
                     67: .TP
                     68: .B Pageout
                     69: paging out some other process.
                     70: .TP
                     71: .I Syscall
                     72: performing the named system call.
                     73: .TP
                     74: .BI no " resource
                     75: waiting for more of a critical
                     76: .IR resource .
                     77: .PD
                     78: .SH FILES
                     79: .TF /proc/*/status
                     80: .TP
                     81: .B /proc/*/status
                     82: .SH SOURCE
                     83: .B /sys/src/cmd/ps.c
                     84: .br
                     85: .B /rc/bin/psu
                     86: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     87: .IR kill (1), 
                     88: .IR db (1),
                     89: .IR ps (1),
                     90: .IR proc (3)

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