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Monitoring and controlling processes

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Monitoring and controlling processes

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- [Instructor] On a Linux system, every program that runs is addressable by a process ID number, or PID. Using these numbers, we can control processes to change their priority, to find information about them and to end them if we need to. To start, let's take a look at how to find out information about processes. One way of doing this is to use "top" which lets you see and sort processes running on the system. I'll write "top" to see the processes. Here's a listing of processes and some information about the system. Up at the top, the system information summary shows us useful information like CPU utilization, memory usage and more. Down below, we can see the processes and we can manipulate this list with a few commands. Pressing X highlights the column that's currently being used to sort the processes. And pressing the B key, we can toggle that highlight between kind of a light highlight and a darker one. With the greater…

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