[ale] ps without threads

[David Corbin]

On Thursday 04 November 2004 03:02 pm, Barry Hawkins wrote:
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> David Corbin wrote:
> | I know that ps can show each thread as a process, or not, but I cannot
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> find
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> | the switch that controls this.   Specifically, my ps shows all
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> threads, and
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> | that's not what I want.
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> ~    It's a bit odd that your ps defaults to showing threads as
> processes; what is your platform, distro and shell?  

i386, Debian/Gentoo, bash

> Are there any 
> aliases lurking about in /etc/*rc files or something?  

None defined according to "alias"

> Does your 
> printenv yield any PS_* variables being set?

No.
>
> ~    Perhaps you could post some sample output...
Here is a fragment.... of "ps ax".

18185 pts/23   Ss+    0:00 /bin/sh /home/dcorbin/tools/jboss/bin/run.sh
18190 pts/23   S+     0:00 /home/dcorbin/tools/jdk/bin/java -Xdebug -Xnoagent 
-Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp transpor
18191 pts/23   S+     0:00 /home/dcorbin/tools/jdk/bin/java -Xdebug -Xnoagent 
-Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp transpor
18192 pts/23   S+     0:52 /home/dcorbin/tools/jdk/bin/java -Xdebug -Xnoagent 
-Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp transpor
18193 pts/23   S+     0:00 /home/dcorbin/tools/jdk/bin/java -Xdebug -Xnoagent 
-Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp transpor
18194 pts/23   S+     0:00 /home/dcorbin/tools/jdk/bin/java -Xdebug -Xnoagent 
-Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp transpor
18195 pts/23   S+     0:00 /home/dcorbin/tools/jdk/bin/java -Xdebug -Xnoagent 
-Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp transpor
18196 pts/23   S+     0:00 /home/dcorbin/tools/jdk/bin/java -Xdebug -Xnoagent 
-Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp transpor
18197 pts/23   S+     0:00 /home/dcorbin/tools/jdk/bin/java -Xdebug -Xnoagent 
-Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp transpor
18198 pts/23   S+     0:00 /home/dcorbin/tools/jdk/bin/java -Xdebug -Xnoagent 
-Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp transpor
18199 pts/23   S+     0:17 /home/dcorbin/tools/jdk/bin/java -Xdebug -Xnoagent 
-Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp transpor
18200 pts/23   S+     0:00 /home/dcorbin/tools/jdk/bin/java -Xdebug -Xnoagent 
-Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp transpor
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> typical ps examples from 
> the man pages to show thread info include:
>
> ps -eLf
> ps axms
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Yes, I saw that, and the other info you posted in the man page.  But that 
isn't what I want.