I feel obliged to point out that this blog post is roughly 5 years old. People change, opinions evolve. In just a few years, vast technological landscapes can shift. And don't get me started on config files. Please consider this text in the context of its time.
Today I won’t write a blog entry explaining a feature. I would just like to guide your attention to an article at “Teaching an old ps command new tricks” written by Alan Coopersmith.
ps saw a lot of extensions in a recent SRU. A lot of the changes are making life easier when porting Linux tools as the Solaris ps is now able to understand more Linux options.
The SRU27 also introduced a --human-readable option, however it’s now part of all the tools that understand the --scale= option and --human-readable is now equivalent to --scale=max,1024. For more information about the --scale= option you can read my recent blog entry about it.
