17. Processes¶

17.1. PID¶

Table 17.1. Processes¶
Command	Type	Description
`htop`		interactive process viewer
`jobs`
`kill -9`
`kill`		send a signal to a process
`kill`		send signal to a process
`killall`		kill processes by name
`lxc`
`memusage`		profile memory usage of a program
`nice`		run a program with modified scheduling priority
`nice`		change process priority
`nohup`		run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
`nproc`		print the number of processing units available
`pidof`		find the process ID of a running program.
`pidwait`		look up, signal, or wait for processes based on name and other attributes
`pkill`		look up, signal, or wait for processes based on name and other attributes
`pkill`	(3pm)	Kill all instances of a process by pattern matching the command-line
`pmap`		report memory map of a process
`ps aux`
`ps`		report a snapshot of the current processes.
`pslog`		report current logs path of a process
`pstree`		display a tree of processes
`renice`		alter priority of running processes
`screen`		screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
`skill`		send a signal or report process status
`time`		run programs and summarize system resource usage
`time`		get time in seconds
`time`		overview of time and timers
`timeout`		run a command with a time limit
`times`		get process times
`top`		display Linux processes
`wait`		wait for process to change state
`watch`		execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
`fork`	(3am)	basic process management
`fg`		move process to foreground
`bg`		move process to background
`free`		allocate and free dynamic memory