Chapter 6. Process Control

More About Processes
The Process Tree
Signals
Information on Processes: ps and pstree
ps
pstree
Sending Signals to Processes: kill, killall and top
kill, killall
Mixing ps and kill: top
Setting Priority to Processes: nice, renice
renice
nice

Abstract

We already seen in the section called “Processes” what a process is. We will now learn how to list processes and their characteristics, and how to “manipulate” them.