Useful Tools
Explore useful UNIX command-line tools that help you monitor and control system processes. Understand how to use ps, top, kill, and killall commands, and learn about the role of the superuser for system administration. Gain practical insights into managing process resources and system load for better virtualization handling.
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Command-line tools
There are many command-line tools that are useful as well. For example, using the ps command allows you to see which processes are running; read the man pages for some useful flags to pass to ps. The tool top is also quite helpful, as it displays the processes of the system and how much CPU and other resources they are eating up. Humorously, many times when you run it, top claims it is the top resource hog; perhaps it is a bit of an egomaniac. The command kill can be used to send arbitrary signals to processes, ...