Monitor and Manage Linux Processes Flashcards
1
Q
What is a process?
A
A running instance of an executable program.
2
Q
What states are processes assigned?
A
Running, sleeping, stopped, or zombie.
3
Q
What command list processes?
A
ps
4
Q
What can a terminal have during its own session?
A
A foreground process an independent background processes.
5
Q
What does the jobs command do?
A
Displays processes within a terminal session.
6
Q
What is a signal?
A
A software interrupt that reports events to an executing program.
7
Q
What commands use signals to control processes?
A
kill, pkill, killall
8
Q
What is a load average?
A
An estimate of how busy the system is.
9
Q
What commands are used to display the load average values?
A
top, uptime, or w
