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New Colorized(optional) PS, a enhanced version of PS with advanced searching capabilities.

The search criteria can be any of the following.

• command
• EUID set
• EGID set
• JID
• is a kernel process
• percent of memory usage
• percent of CPU usage
• RSS
• VSZ
• is swapped out
• process state
• CPU time in seconds
• UID or username
• wait channel
• is a zombie process

Command Line Options

-c <regex>    Search procs using the matching regex.
--ci          Invert the command search.

--cf          Show children minor faults.

--cF          Show children major faults.

--eg          Search for proccs with a EGID set.
--egi         Invert the EGID set search.

--eu          Search for proccs with a EUID set.
--eui         Invert the EUID set search.

-f            Show minor faults.

-F            Show major faults.

-J            Show jail IDs.
-j <jids>     A comma seperated list of JIDs to search for.
--ji          Invert the JIDs earch.

--idle        Show the idle kernel process.

--kern        Searches for kernel processes.
--kerni       Invert the kernel process search.

-m <pctmem>   Memory usage percent to search for.
--mi          Invert the memory usage search.

-n            Show number of threads.

--nc          disable color.

-p <pctcpu>   CPU usage percent to search for.
--pi          Invert the CPU usage search.

--pid <pids>  PIDs to search for.
--pidi        Invert the PID search.

-r <RSSs>     A comma seperated list of RSS values to search for.
--ri          Invert the RSS search.

-s            Show swapped out procs.
--si          Invert the swapped out search.

--self        Show the the ncps process as well.

--st <states> A comma seperated list of states to search for.
--sti         Invert the state search.

--stats       Print some general states about CPU usage and memory usage.

-t <times>    A comma seperated value of time, in seconds, to search for.
--ti          Invert the time search.

--tty         Show TTYs.

-u <UIDs>     A comma seperated list of UIDs or usernames.
--ui          Invert the UID/username search.

-vs <VSZs>    A comma seperated list of VSZs to search for.
--vsi         Invert the VSZ search.

-w <wchans>   A string search for wait channels.
--wi          Invert the wait channel search.

-z            Show zombies procs.


For the various switches above that can take numeric values,
the equalities below can be used, by directly prepending them to
the number.
<
<=
>
>=
!

Enviromental Variables

The enviromental variables below may be set to set the default for the flag in question.

Unless set to defined ands set to 1, these will default to 0.

Variable	Description
NCPS_jid	Sets the default for the -J flag.
NCPS_numthr	Sets the default for the -n flag.
NCPS_cmajflt	Sets the default for the --cF flag.
NCPS_majflt	Sets the default for the -F flag.
NCPS_cminflt	Sets the default for the --cf flag.
NCPS_minflt	Sets the default for the -f flag.
NCPS_tty	Sets the default for the --tty flag.
NCPS_self	Sets the default for the --self flag.
NCPS_idle	Sets the default for the --idle flag.
NO_COLOR	Don't colorize the output.

EXAMPLES

ncps -J -j 0 --ji

Display all processes with a jail ID other than zero.

ncps -c firefox --stats

Show all firefox processes and the stats for them.

ncps -F -f -cF -cf

Show all minor/major values for processes.

ncps -p '>1'

Show all processes using more than 1% of the CPU time.

Installing

FreeBSD

pkg install perl5 p5-App-cpanminus
cpanm Proc::ProcessTable::ncps

Linux

CentOS

yum install cpanm
cpanm Proc::ProcessTable::ncps

Debian

This has been tested as working on Debian 9 minimal.

apt install perl perl-base perl-modules make cpanminus gcc 
cpanm Proc::ProcessTable::ncps