Monitoring Processes

CompTIA Linux+ Domain:

Domain 2.0: System Operation and Maintenance
Domain 4.0: Linux Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

CompTIA Linux+ Objective:

Objective 2.3: Given a scenario, manage services. 
Objective 4.2: Given a scenario, analyze system processes in order to optimize performance. 

Overview

Fedora Workstation is a Linux distribution based on Red Hat Linux. One important difference is that Fedora is free, whereas most versions of Red Hat require licensing. You will be learning about starting, stopping, interrupting, and resuming processes in this lab. This lab provides guidance on monitoring processes of the Linux+. 

outcomes:

In this lab, you will learn to:

  1. Start background and foreground processes.
  2. Use top to view and renice processes.
  3. Start processes using nice.
  4. Use pkill and kill to terminate processes.
  5. Use ps to select and sort processes.
  6. Use nohup to execute a process.
  7. Use free and uptime to view system statistics.
Courses

Key terms and descriptions

process
A process is a running program on a Linux system.
PID
A process is identified by its process ID (PID).
ps
A Linux command that allows a system administrator to select and sort processes