process manager for linux?

stickfun · 10-30-2005, 08:14 PM

Sorry for the large number of questions recently but I'm trying many things to get linux working (to replace that windows). So now I need to know how to keep track of processes running in the background (like the windows task manager). Preferably runable from text mode.

tia

Tinkster · 10-30-2005, 08:29 PM

top

Cheers,
Tink

cs-cam · 10-30-2005, 08:30 PM

man ps

ps aux | grep <process name> is soo handy sometimes

mrchaos · 10-30-2005, 09:17 PM

better than ps aux|grep ____

ps -A|grep _____, it's cleaner and just gives you what you need (aka, the rogue process number that you need to kill) ;-)

Slith(++1) · 10-31-2005, 02:31 AM

After using ps get the pid and in the console enter the command kill then the process ID.

Eg, kill 1243

alienDog · 10-31-2005, 06:34 AM

Htop is very nice imho

http://htop.sourceforge.net/

mrchaos · 10-31-2005, 06:56 AM

htop? this is the first time I've heard of it. I'll have to try it out! thanks aliendog!

Emmanuel_uk · 10-31-2005, 07:07 AM

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