AIX - Process Management

AIX - Process Management

utmpd
The utmpd daemon monitors /etc/utmp for validity of the user process entries every 300 seconds (default). Default there is no entry in /etc/inittab for utmpd.
utmpd 500 : runs utmpd every 500 seconds.

whodo
Reports the list of processes and their child processes belonging to users.
who -l : summarises the current activity on the system.

procwdx
Prints the current working directory of a process.
procwdx 21318 : displays the current working directory of process 21318.

truss
Traces system calls executed by a process as, records the received signals and the occurrence of machine faults. The output of truss can become very large.
truss -e -o truss.out whoo : runs the who command under truss including the environment content (-e) and redirects the output to truss.out.