System Activity and Process Management
A number of additional commands in Chapter 3 are particularly useful in controlling processes, including kill, killall, pidof, ps, and who.
Command | Action |
|---|---|
fuser | Identify processes using file or filesystem. |
renice | Change the priority of running processes. |
top | Show most CPU-intensive processes. |
vmstat | Print virtual-memory statistics and process statistics. |
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