Listing and monitoring processes
In a running system, we often notice that suddenly a system is responding slowly. This can be because a running application is consuming a lot of memory or a process is doing CPU-intensive work. It's hard to predict which application is causing the system to respond slower. To know the reason, it is good to know what all processes are running and also know the monitoring behavior (such as the amount of CPU or memory being consumed) of processes.
Listing processes
To know a list of processes running in the system, we can use the ps command.
Syntax
The syntax of the ps command is as follows:
ps [option]
There are a lot of options to use the ps command. The commonly used options are explained in the following table.
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