Linux Process Management Commands Guide

Some of the primary Linux process management commands include ps, top, and kill. Here are the ways to use these commands:

1. ps command: displays information about the process status in the current system.
2. Display all processes of the current user.
3. ps -ef: shows detailed information of all processes in the system.
4. ps aux: display detailed information of all processes, including processes of other users.
5. ps -ejH: Display the process structure in a tree format.
6. ps -eLf: Display detailed information about processes and their threads.
7. The “top” command: monitors real-time process status information in the system.
8. Display real-time process information, sorted by CPU usage.
9. top -u username: display the process information for the specified user.
10. Display information of specific processes using “top -p pid1,pid2”.
11. top -n 5: displays information on specified number of processes, such as 5.
12. Terminate a specified process using the kill command.
13. Terminate the specified process by sending a default SIGTERM signal.
14. Terminate the specified process forcefully using the SIGKILL signal.
15. Terminate all processes with the specified process name using the command “killall process_name”.
16. Terminate processes with the specified process name using pkill.

All of the above commands can be used in conjunction with other options, detailed usage documentation can be found using the man command.