Week 5 - Process Utilization

Question 1

What’s the most common way to take a peak to see how system resources are doing? Windows

Answer 1

Resource monitor

Question 2

What command for Linux lets us see the top processes that are using the most resources?

Answer 2

top

Question 3

What does NPM, PM, WS, and VM stand for in the Get-Process output? Windows

Answer 3

NPM - Non-paged memory
PM - Paged memory
WS - Working set (pages of memory recently referenced)
VM - Amount of virtual memory being used

Question 4

What’s a common reason a user’s computer is running a little slow?

Answer 4

The computer (a process) is overusing resources

Question 5

What do you do if you find a process is using a lot of CPU/memory resources?

Answer 5

Either terminate the process or investigate the process

Question 6

When using the uptime command in Linux, what does the load average of the machine show us?

Answer 6

It shows us the average CPU load in 1, 5, and 15 minute intervals

Question 7

With what command do you list open files and what processes are using them in Linux?

Answer 7

lsof

Question 8

____ utilization can be monitored separately from _____

Answer 8

hardware utilization can be monitored separately from processes

Question 9

In Linux, what does a “load” mean? In terms of the average CPU load

Answer 9

it’s the amount of processes running or waiting to be run by the CPU

Question 10

What are the 5 states when viewing the output of the Top command in Linux?

Answer 10

1. Total
2. Running
3. Sleeping
4. Stopped
5. Zombie

Question 11

In Linux, a load for a system that is idle with no processes running or waiting is classified as a ____

Answer 11

0

zero

Question 12

In Linux, every process that’s running or waiting to run adds a value of___ to the load

Answer 12

1