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Process Management



bg		Starts a suspended process in the background
fg 		Starts a suspended process in the foreground
gitps		A graphical process viewer and killer program.
jobs		Lists the jobs running
kill		Ex: "kill 34" - Effect: Kill or stop the process with the 
		process ID number 34.
killall		Kill processes by name. Can check for and restart processes.
pidof		Find the process ID of a running program
ps		Get the status of one or more processes. Options:

	    * u (more info)
	    * a (see all)
	    * -l (technical info) 

	Meanings:

	    * PPID-parent process ID
	    * PID-process ID 

ps ax |more to see all processes including daemons

pstree		Display the tree of running processes.
sa		Generates a summary of information about users' processes that 
		are stored in the /var/log/pacct file.
skill		Report process status.
snice		Report process status.
top		Display the processes that are using the most CPU resources.
CTRL-C		Kills the current job.
& 		At the end of the command makes it run in the background.



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