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—– are messages that can be sent between processes

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Signals

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—– are messages that can be sent between processes

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Signals

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A Linux — is a program that is running on the system. It can be started either from a command line, a graphical desktop, the kernel itself.

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Process

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Every process on Linux is assigned a —- which is a unique number identifying a process with the Linux Kernel.

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Process ID (PID)

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(Process States) The process is executing,though it must wait for it assigned time slices and must pause for a few microseconds between steps in the execution.

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Running

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(Process States) The process is waiting for something to happen that doesn’t depend on the kernel giving it another time slice.

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Sleeping

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(Process States) the process has been halted before it exited normally.

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Stopped

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(PS States) the process has been halted before it exited normally.

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Stopped

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Swap space is also called

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Virtual memory

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—- Occurs when the kernel spends so much time moving processes to and from the swap space that the kernel and the processes bog down and work inefficiently.

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Thrashing

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A Linux — is a program that is running on the system. It can be started either from a command line, a graphical desktop, the kernel itself.

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Process

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Every process on Linux is assigned a —- which is a unique number identifying a process with the Linux Kernel.

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Process ID (PID)

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To create a new process in Linux, a program —-

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Forks

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(PS States) The process is executing,though it must wait for it assigned time slices and must pause for a few microseconds between steps in the execution.

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Running

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(PS States) The process is waiting for something to happen that doesn’t depend on the kernel giving it another time slice.

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Sleeping

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— is a background process that doesnt have any screen output but waits for certain system activity and then acts on it.

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daemon

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(PS States) A — process is a process that is no longer active.

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Zombie

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Swap space is also called

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Virtual memory

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—- Occurs when the kernel spends so much time moving processes to and from the swap space that the kernel and the processes bog down and work inefficiently.

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Thrashing

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(PS Options)Selects all processes that were not started normally from a terminal

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x

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Multiple processes started from a single shell are called —

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Jobs

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You can use the — key combo to suspend a job that the shell is busy running.

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Ctrl+z

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You can use the — key combo to suspend a job that the shell is busy running.

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Ctrl+z

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To place a job in the foreground use the – commmand

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fg

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Use the --- command to run the suspended program in the background
bg
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The -- command lists the processes that are currently running on your Linux system.
ps
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The -- command lists the processes that are currently running on your Linux system.
ps
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To see a list of all the signals, use the kill command with the -l option
S kill -l
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--- is a background process that doesnt have any screen output but waits for certain system activity and then acts on it.
daemon
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(PS Options) You can use the - option to display the relationship between different processes, showing which processes start other processes.
f
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(PS Options) Selects all processes on the system
-A
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(PS Options) Selects all processes running in the current terminal
T
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--- requests that a program close itself, giving the program a chance to clean up its work, close any open files, and so forth, before ending.
SIGTERM
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(PS Options) Restricts output to running processes (those that are not sleeping)
r
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If the myeditor program were behaving badly, you could use this command
killall -9 myeditor
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(PS Options) Selects processes by PID number
-p
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(PS Options) Selects processes by user name; to use this option, type the user name after the option
--user
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(PS Options) Selects all processes belonging to users who are members of the group named after the option
--group
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The --- field provides a cumulative measure of the amount of CPU time consumed by a process.
Time field
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The --- is a collection of information about the Linux Kernel that you access as if it were actually data files stored in subdirectories of /proc
/proc file system
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(Example) To start a script named analyze with a nice level of 5, use this command
$ nice -5 analyze
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Top is normally started without any options, like this
$ top
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(Example) if the PID of the analyze script is 1776, this renice command changes the running script's priority to 10 so that it takes longer to complete
renice +10 1776
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To see a list of all the signals, use the kill command with the -l option
S kill -l
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Almost all programs respond to the --- signal (#15) This signal requests that the program end.
SIGTERM
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Shuts down the indicated process
SIGKILL
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(Interactive Commands in top) Change the number of processes included in the display
n or #
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--- requests that a program close itself, giving the program a chance to clean up its work, close any open files, and so forth, before ending.
SIGTERM
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This command sends a signal to all processes started by a given command
killall
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If the myeditor program were behaving badly, you could use this command
killall -9 myeditor
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--- determines how much CPU time is granted to the process as the kernel allocates time slices among all processes.
Priority
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Another name for the priority of a process is ---
nice level
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The standard nice level is -
0
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The highest nice level, which makes the program run the slowest is --
20
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The root user can lower the nice level of a process to -- which gives that process a lot of extra CPU time
-20
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(Example) To start a script named analyze with a nice level of 5, use this command
$ nice -5 analyze
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The --- command changes the nice level of a process that is already running. To use the --- you must know the PID of the process you want to affect.
renice
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(Example) if the PID of the analyze script is 1776, this renice command changes the running script's priority to 10 so that it takes longer to complete
renice +10 1776
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(Interactive Commands in top) Update the process list display immediately
Spacebar
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(Interactive Commands in top) Show a help screen with a command or listing
h or ?
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(Interactive Commands in top) Kill a process
k
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(Interactive Commands in top) Change the number of processes included in the display
n or #
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Renice a process
r
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A program called --- lets you view system status information on your desktop continuously
GKrellM
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A --- contains prewritten functionality that any program can use
library
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--- Include library functions in the main program. They require no additional library files on the Linux system. Each copy of an application loads into system memory a duplicate copy of all the library functions it uses
Statically linked applications
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--- means that several applications can use a single copy of a library that has been loaded into memory.
Shared Libraries
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(Note) Running multiple applications that are dynamically linked to the same libraries requires less memory than running multiple statically linked applications.
/
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You can use the --- command to list all the libraries that a program requires.
ldd
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(Combinations of Process information Fields available from ps) Shows fields related to controlling jobs in a shell
i
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(Combinations of Process information Fields available from ps) Shows fields related to signals that each process handles
s
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(Combinations of Process information Fields available from ps) Shows fields that define how the owner of each process is using system resources
u
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(Combinations of Process information Fields available from ps) Shows fields detailing how each process is using virtual memory
v
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Process Group ID
PGID
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Session ID
SID
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Controlling Terminal
TTY
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Process group ID of the owner of the terminal running the process
tpgid
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Owner of the process
user
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Time left of a possible timeslice allocated to the process
pri
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Nice level
nice
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Scheduling Policy
plcy
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Real-time priority
rpri
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Number of major faults loading information from a file system.
majflt
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Number of minor faults (with no disk access involved)
minflt
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Size of the text used by the program (in kb)
trs
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Size of the data used by the program (in kb)
drs
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Virtual image size of the process (in kb)
size
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Space used on swap device by this process (in kb)
swap
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Kilobytes of the program resident in memory
rss
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Shared memory size in kb
share
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Number of pages of imformation that are dirty (not yet updated to the hard disk)
dt
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(Column Heading in ps output) | State of the process
stat
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(Column Heading in ps output) | process flags
Flags
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Kernel function at the point where the process is sleeping
wchan
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(Column Heading in ps output) | User ID of the owner of this process
uid
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Weighted percentage of cpu time consumed
wpcpu
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Percentage of cpu used since last update
pcpu
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Percentage of memory used
pmem
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(Column Heading in ps output) | Time that the process was started
start
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--- --- let you log in at multiple independent text-mode screens
Virtual consoles
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(Note) Multiple processes can be started from a single shell. Starting a process with a ampersand runs the program in the background.
/
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You can view process information within the /proc file system or using a number of utilities such as -- and ---
Ps and top
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--- opens your crontab in a text editor.
Crontab -e
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Two daemons --- and --- are started when you boot Linux using standard service scripts in /etc/ex.d/init.d
ATF and cond
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The --- command lists all queued at jobs.
Atq
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Use the --- command to cancel a command that you have submitted using at.
Atrm
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The --- variable defines which shell the crond daemon uses to execute the commands and scripts listed in a file.
Shell
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The --- variable defines which user on the Linux system receives a email message about containing the output from all corn jobs defined in the file.
Mailto

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