dave@david ~ $ 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 0.0 1596 540 ? Ss 00:03 0:01 init [3] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [kthreadd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [migration/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [watchdog/0] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [migration/1] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [watchdog/1] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [events/0] root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [events/1] root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [khelper] root 53 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [kblockd/0] root 54 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [kblockd/1] root 58 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [kacpid] root 59 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [kacpi_notify] root 176 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [kseriod] root 213 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 00:03 0:00 [pdflush] root 214 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 00:03 0:00 [pdflush] root 215 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [kswapd0] root 216 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [aio/0] root 217 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [aio/1] root 219 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [xfslogd/0] root 220 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [xfslogd/1] root 221 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [xfsdatad/0] root 222 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [xfsdatad/1] root 223 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [xfs_mru_cache] root 224 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [ocfs2_wq] root 226 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:03 0:00 [user_dlm] root 406 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [kpsmoused] root 411 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [kirqd] root 716 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd] root 722 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [khubd] root 1147 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [khpsbpkt] root 1622 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [ata/0] root 1623 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [ata/1] root 1624 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [ata_aux] root 3484 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [ksnapd] root 3709 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [dm-bbr/0] root 3710 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [dm-bbr/1] root 4655 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [jfsIO] root 4656 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 4657 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 4658 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [jfsSync] root 4879 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [rpciod/0] root 4880 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [rpciod/1] root 5256 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 00:04 0:00 [kjournald] root 5365 0.0 0.0 1988 740 ? S