How to display the process in Linux System

By Partho, Gaea News Network
Monday, September 21, 2009

linux2As a part of monitoring Linux system you often need to know about the currently running processes in Linux systems. Once you know the process running on the Linux system you can kill the process that are slowing down your system. Again, information about system processes makes it imperative to kill the processes that make the system unstable. Knowing the server and running processes in the system is important. The information would allow you to shut down some of the processes. There are a number of ways  Let’s see


Linux supports ps command to display information about all running process. The ps command provides a snapshot of the current process.

Just type the following command in the terminal

# ps aux | less

ps

There are three ways you can use this command.

See all the processes in the system types the following in the terminal

# ps -A

See all the processes except those running  on the root

# ps -U root -u root -N

See the process by the certain user

# ps -u username

For dynamic real time view of running systems. Type the top at terminal

# top

YOUR VIEW POINT
NAME : (REQUIRED)
MAIL : (REQUIRED)
will not be displayed
WEBSITE : (OPTIONAL)
YOUR
COMMENT :