R: Process table

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## Process table

### Description

Process table

### Usage

    ps(user = NULL, after = NULL)

### Arguments

`user` | Username, to filter the results to matching processes.
`after` | Start time (`POSIXt`), to filter the results to processes that started after this.

### Value

Data frame (tibble), see columns below.

Columns:

- `pid`: Process ID.

- `ppid`: Process ID of parent process.

- `name`: Process name.

- `username`: Name of the user (real uid on POSIX).

- `status`: I.e. running, sleeping, etc.

- `user`: User CPU time.

- `system`: System CPU time.

- `rss`: Resident set size, the amount of memory the process currently uses. Does not include memory that is swapped out. It does include shared libraries.

- `vms`: Virtual memory size. All memory the process has access to.

- `created`: Time stamp when the process was created.

- `ps_handle`: `ps_handle` objects, in a list column.

[Package ps version 1.6.0 Index]