On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:13:52PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
On 10/11/17 21:43, davidson wrote:On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, David Christensen wrote:
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If I lock the screen and SSH in from another machine, 'top' says:...PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7473 lightdm 20 0 587348 51332 25584 R 94.6 2.5 0:14.52 lightdm-gt+...AFAICT, that command name is truncated. In interactive top, you can scroll with right-arrow, to view the rest of the name. With that information, your search results might improve. Could be lightdm-gtk-greeter? Or something else, I guess....Thanks for the tip. Making my Xfce Terminal wider, I see more of the name, but it's still truncated (as are several others with long names). RTFM top(1) -- I can use the -b (batch mode), -n 1 (number of iterations), and -w (output-width-override) options and redirect the output to file:2017-10-11 22:51:04 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~ $ top -b -n 1 -w top - 22:52:43 up 15:45, 2 users, load average: 0.98, 0.53, 0.27 Tasks: 232 total, 3 running, 229 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie%Cpu(s): 13.7 us, 2.3 sy, 0.2 ni, 83.4 id, 0.4 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 stKiB Mem : 2043196 total, 535484 free, 780640 used, 727072 buff/cache KiB Swap: 1952764 total, 1744820 free, 207944 used. 980428 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND9957 lightdm 20 0 587348 51196 25444 R 88.2 2.5 2:41.03 lightdm-gtk-gre...
According to StackOverflow[1], process names can only be 16 bytes long. So, while the executable may be called 'lightdm-gtk-greeter', the process in which that executable runs will be 'lightdm-gtk-gre'.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23534263/what-is-the-maximum-allowed-limit-on-the-length-of-a-process-name#23534499
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