37. Ubuntu System and Process Monitoring
An important part of running and administering an Ubuntu system involves monitoring the overall system health in terms of memory, swap, storage and processor usage. This includes knowing how to inspect and manage both the system and user processes that are running in the background. This chapter will outline some of the tools and utilities that can be used to monitor both system resources and processes on an Ubuntu system.
37.1 Managing Processes
Even when an Ubuntu system appears to be idle, many system processes will be running silently in the background to keep the operating system functioning. Each time you execute a command or launch an app, user processes are started which will run until the associated ...
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