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Chapter7 Monitoring and Managing Linux Processes

A process is a program that is being executed. Any process can create child processes, and all processes trace back to the initial systemd process. The ps, top, uptime, and GNOME System Monitor commands can be used to view and monitor active processes. Processes can run in the foreground or background and be signaled using kill, pkill, or killall. Process priorities can be modified using nice or renice.

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Chapter7 Monitoring and Managing Linux Processes

A process is a program that is being executed. Any process can create child processes, and all processes trace back to the initial systemd process. The ps, top, uptime, and GNOME System Monitor commands can be used to view and monitor active processes. Processes can run in the foreground or background and be signaled using kill, pkill, or killall. Process priorities can be modified using nice or renice.

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What is a process?

- A process is a program which is being executed


- Any process may create a child process. All processes are descendants of the
first system process, which is systemd on a RHEL7 system.
[root@master ~]# echo $$ (To see the PID of your current shell process)
4085
[root@master ~]# bash
[root@master ~]# echo $$
8686
[root@master ~]# exit
exit
[root@master ~]# echo $$
4085

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Listing processes:
[root@master ~]# ps
[root@master ~]# ps aux
[root@master ~]# ps -aux
[root@master ~]# ps -aux | less
[root@master ~]# ps aux | grep -i syslogd
[root@master ~]# ls /proc/
[root@master ~]# ps aux | grep 264 (which shown in /proc)
[root@master ~]# pidof vim or [root@master ~]# pgrep vim
[root@master ~]# ps -l (To display Parent PID PPID)
[root@master ~]# ps -ef (To display Parent PID PPID and nice values)

a.... all processes attached to a terminal


u.... provides more columns
x.... all other processes

[root@master ~]# pstree (process status tree)


OR
[root@master ~]# ps fax (process status tree)
[root@master ~]# pstree -p (Display PID of each process)

- Processes in brackets (usually at the top) are scheduled kernel threads.


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Real-time process monitoring:
[root@master ~]# uptime
[root@master ~]# grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo (to know nu of CPUs)
[root@master ~]# top

type 1 to show all cpu cores


type s to change the default refresh rate which is 3 seconds
type h for help
type k to kill a process
type r to renice a process
type M to change the display to sort by the amount of memory
type P to change the display to sort by the CPU utilization
type n to change the number of processes shown
type w to save current display configuration
type q to quit

PID ... The process ID


USER ... The process owner
VIRT ... (Virtual memory) All memory the process is using including swap
RES ... (Resident memory) The physical memory used by the process
TIME ... CPU time, the total processing time since the process started
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GUI tools to manage processes:
[root@master ~]# gnome-system-monitor
OR)
Applications.. System Tools.. System Monitor
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Controlling Jobs:
- Background processes display a question mark (?) in the TTY column in a ps aux
command.

[root@master ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null


[root@master ~]# sleep 100000 & (Running a job in the background)
[1] 5151

[root@master ~]# jobs


[1]+ Running sleep 100000 &

[root@master ~]# fg %1
sleep 100000

^Z (To resend to the background)


[1]+ Stopped sleep 100000

[root@master ~]# bg %1 (To restart the process in the background)

[1]+ sleep 100000 &

OR
[root@master ~]# bg 5151

^C (End the process)


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Killing Processes:
[root@master ~]# kill -l (List all signals)
[root@master ~]# man 7 signal

1)SIGHUP Causes the process to re-read the configuration file


9)SIGKILL Should be used with caution
15)SIGTERM The default

[root@master ~]# pidof vim


4123
[root@master ~]# kill 4123 (Default is SIGTERM 15)

[root@master ~]# pidof vim


7073
[root@master ~]# kill -9 7073
[root@master ~]# kill -SIGKILL 7073

[root@master ~]# pkill vim (Default is SIGTERM 15)


[root@master ~]# killall vim
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Managing Process Priorities:
- Processes are scheduled according to priority.
- negative values are allowed only to root.

[root@master ~]# ps l (To show nice values)

-The nice command is used to start a process with a user defined priority.
[root@master ~]# nice vim text & (Default is 10)
[1] 9182

[root@master ~]# nice -n 15 vim text &

-The renice command is used to change the priority of a currently running process.
[root@master ~]# renice 19 9182 (19 is the new value)
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Best wishes
Abeer :)

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