Well, "ppid" is one of the values to be specified for option "-o", "ps(1)". Try something like (tested on one of the Pair shared hosts running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE) ... 
ps -wwax -o ppid,pid,pgid,rss,vsz,nice,%mem,%cpu,rgid,ruser,user,stat,
+command \
| sort -k1,1n -k2,2n

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... there are other options listed related to paging & swapping, and (real & saved) user & group id. If you specify the "-c" option along with "-o command", only command name will show up (w/o the arguments).

In reply to Re^5: 'A' web server takes another "time out" (root) by parv
in thread 'A' web server takes another "time out" by tye

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