Process Management

Romain Lerallut

  
        

A documentation about how to manage processes under Linux


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Revision History
Revision v0.0330 May 2001Revised by: rml
Changes in the title page.
Revision v0.0224 May 2001Revised by: rml
Added the FDL License.
Revision v0.015 May 2001Revised by: rml
Started this whole thing.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Credits
1.2. Feedback
2. Unix and processes
3. Process Management
3.1. Finding info about a process
3.2. Signals
3.3. Nice and priorities
3.4. Renice a job's priorities
4. Tips and Tricks
4.1. Killing processes