From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040422 Description of problem: In previous releases of "ps" you could display processes with the CPU that they were running on by using the --format=cpu command. That ability seems to have been intentionally removed by the procps folks as it is no longer in the --help or the "man" page for ps. It was in the 2.x versions of procps, so it has been removed intentionally for some reason. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): procps-3.2.0-1.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run ps --format=cpu 2. 3. Actual Results: all processes listed with a "-" instead of the number of the CPU that they are running on: [sean@homebox sean]$ ps -ef --format=cpu Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html CPU - - - - - - - Expected Results: It should list the CPU that it is running on, this works in the 2.x versions of procps. Additional info: I am putting this in as a Feature Request as it is a loss of functionality not a bug per se. I hope to get the procps folks to put this back into their program as it is a very useful tool for troubleshooting thread performance issues.
I asked the procps folks for their assistance on this one. There is an alternative --format option "psr" that works just as well and solves this item. Go ahead and close this!