MacOS – Process list with name and VPRVT

ps -axc -o comm

• -a displays processes from all users (or root)
• -x includes processes that don't have a controlling terminal
• -o comm outputs command paths or names
• -c makes -o comm output names only

tell app "System Events" to name of application processes would list only processes launched from an application bundle.

Lingon is a GUI to launchd command line utility that manages OS X processes that run in the background.

Basically, to have launchd manage your FileMaker server, all you need to do is to create a special XML file called a property list (.plist) and place it an appropriate place.

Here is a nice (and easy) explanation of how it works and how to configure it.