ps -eo pid,ppid,rss,vsize,pcpu,pmem,cmd -ww --sort=pid I m no genius i found it here : http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2003-03/msg00077.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/attachments/20080715/ebcec613/attachment.htm>