Process Management

In Linux, every command launches a process. Shells are processes, too.

$ top → Tool for a structured display of processes.

$ top -u user1 → Display the processes of user user1.

$ htop → An interactive and enhanced version of top.

$ ps → Show the current process state. Has a lot of parameters.

$ ps -elf → every process, long format, full listing.

$ kill → Send a signal to a process, e.g. the kill signal to terminate the process.

$ lsof → list open files; Shows the relation between open files and processes.

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