Jatin, On 24 May 2010 06:06, Jatin Davey <jashokda at cisco.com> wrote: > show up as "java" in the ps -A command. I dont know for sure as to which > java process belongs to which component of my appliacation. Hence what i > do is add up all the resource utilization values for all java processes Add a -Darbitrary_string into your java commands. Unless you are very unlucky with your arbitrary string, these will be passed to the java engine as parameters and will be ignored by the rest of the application. Then you can use this to pin the process in ps output. -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org