Chapter 10. Process Control

1. More About Processes
1.1. The Process Tree
1.2. Signals
2. Information on Processes: ps and pstree
2.1. ps
2.2. pstree
3. Sending Signals to Processes: kill, killall and top
3.1. kill, killall
3.2. Mixing ps and kill: top
4. Setting Priority to Processes: nice, renice
4.1. renice
4.2. nice

Abstract

We have already seen in Section 3, “Processes” what a process is. We will now learn how to list processes and their characteristics, and how to manipulate them.