Create, Monitor and Kill Processes

Practice Labs Module
Time
58 minutes
Difficulty
Intermediate

The Create, Kill, and Monitor Processes module provides you with the instructions and devices to develop your hands-on skills in the following topics: Run jobs in the foreground or background, Use the nohup command, Monitor active processes, Select and sort processes to display, Terminate a process, Process hierarchy.

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Overview

Introduction

The Create, Kill, and Monitor Processes module provides you with the instructions and devices to develop your hands-on skills in the following topics:

  • Run jobs in the foreground or background
  • Use the nohup command
  • Monitor active processes
  • Select and sort processes to display
  • Terminate a process
  • Process hierarchy

Lab time: It will take approximately 1 hour to complete this lab.

Exercise 1 - Create, Monitor and Kill Processes

A system performs tasks or jobs by running processes. In this exercise, you will understand how to access and manage these processes.

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