Cisco Systems 12000 series Process ID Process ID number and process name, CF-834, Pid Tid, State

show processes

Age: 662314 msec, Runtime: 3841 msec

State: Running, Priority: Normal

Table 131 describes the fields shown in the display.

Table 131	show processes process-id Field Descriptions
Field		Description
Process ID		Process ID number and process name.
TTY		Terminal that controls the process.
Memory usage		This section contains fields that show the memory used by the specified process.
[in bytes]
Holding		Amount of memory currently allocated to the process.
Maximum		Maximum amount of memory allocated to the process since its invocation.
Allocated		Bytes of memory allocated by the process.
Freed		Bytes of memory freed by the process.
Getbufs		Number of times that the process has requested a packet buffer.
Retbufs		Number of times that the process has relinquished a packet buffer.
Stack		Low water mark/Total stack space available (in bytes).
CPU usage		This section contains fields that show the CPU resources used by the specified
		process.
PC		Current program counter of this process before it was suspended.
Invoked		Number of times that the process executed since its invocation.
Giveups		Number of times that the process voluntarily gave up the CPU.
uSec		Microseconds of CPU time for each process invocation.
5Sec		CPU utilization by process in the last five seconds.
1Min		CPU utilization by process in the last minute.
5Min		CPU utilization by process in the last five minutes.
Average		The average amount of CPU utilization by the process since its invocation.
Age		Milliseconds since the process was invoked.
Runtime		CPU time that the process has used (in milliseconds).
State		Current state of the process. Possible values: Running, Waiting for Event, Sleeping
		(Mgd Timer), Sleeping (Periodic), Ready, Idle, Dead.
Priority		The priority of the process. Possible values: Low, Normal, High.

Cisco IOS Software Modularity

The following is sample output from the show processes command when a Cisco IOS Software Modularity image is running:

Router# show processes

		Total	CPU utilization for 5 seconds: 99.7%; 1 minute: 98.9%; 5 minutes: 86.5%
		PID	TID	Prio	STATE	Blocked	Stack		CPU	Name
1			1	0	Ready		0	(128K)	2m28s	procnto-cisco
1			2	63	Receive	1	0	(128K)	0.000	procnto-cisco
1			3	10	Receive	1	0	(128K)	0.000	procnto-cisco
		Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference
	CF-834									July 2008