Chapter 6. System Performance
This chapter covers the following topics:
Process IDs
Process states
Priorities
Signals
Process commands
This chapter covers the following objectives:
Objective 4.2: Given a scenario, analyze system processes in order to optimize performance.
System performance depends on your system hardware and software capabilities, as well as the number and type of processes running on that finite amount of hardware using the system software.
Starting, stopping, managing, setting priority on, and removing rogue processes are skills necessary to ensure proper system performance on Linux systems.
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