jonathan@debian:~$ ps -aux Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.1 1944 428 ? Ss May29 0:00 init [2] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S May29 0:00 [migration/0] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN May29 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [events/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [khelper] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [kthread] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [kblockd/0] root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [kacpid] root 101 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [kseriod] root 143 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:01 [kswapd0] root 144 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [aio/0] root 606 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [khpsbpkt] root 609 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [ata/0] root 611 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [ata_aux] root 612 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S May29 0:00 [knodemgrd_0] root 614 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [scsi_eh_0] root 615 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [scsi_eh_1] root 637 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [khubd] root 1006 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May29 0:00 [kjournald] root 1189 0.0 0.1 2308 316 ? S