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Hi ortize - I should also have said that that command may not give you the whole picture;<br />
- If the user is logged in via telnet, there will be an extra telnetd process, owned by root, that doesn't show up in the list;<br />
- If the user has used &quot;su -&quot; to become another user, processes for the &quot;new&quot; user won't appear in the list.<br />
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You may also like to try using &quot;top&quot; or &quot;ps -e -o user,pid,pcpu,vsz,time,com<wbr />m |sort -r +2&quot; to see which processes are using most CPU time<br />
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Regards, Tim
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Hi ortize - I should also have said that that command may not give you the whole picture;
- If the user is logged in via telnet, there will be an extra telnetd process, owned by root, that doesn't show up in the list;
- If the user has used "su -" to become another user, processes for the "new" user won't appear in the list.

You may also like to try using "top" or "ps -e -o user,pid,pcpu,vsz,time,comm |sort -r +2" to see which processes are using most CPU time

Regards, Tim

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How can I find the total number of processes a user has on a system? Current system is running Sun Solaris v2.6.<br />
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How can I find the total number of processes a user has on a system? Current system is running Sun Solaris v2.6.

Thanks.

Total number of Processes

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