The Art of Managing Linux Processes

Learn about Linux processes: how they work, their types, creating processes, manipulating processes, and much more.

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Welcome to The Art of Managing Linux Processes! 🚀

In Linux, process management is essential for controlling system performance and security. A process is any running program, and Linux provides powerful tools like ps, top, htop, and kill to monitor and manage them. Understanding how to start, stop, and prioritize processes helps in system administration, troubleshooting, and penetration testing. Mastering Linux process management is key to optimizing performance and securing systems! 🔍🐧

What Is a Process?

A process is a program or an application that is in execution currently. This is also known as an instance of a running application. Now an example of this stuff is every time we type ls we create a new process and then the process stops or exits when it is done. So every time we run a command, we are generating what’s called a foreground process, which I’ll go over in a second. Just understand that processes always or processes always run in the background in the foreground, and I’ll explain that now.