Monitoring processes using ps

We have used the pscommand in the introduction. Let's learn more about it:

• To list the processes associated with our current Bash shell Terminal, enter the following command:

$ ps

• To list processes, along with the parent process ID associated with the current Terminal, enter the following command:

$ ps -f

• We can see the process ID in the PID column and the parent process ID, in the PPID column in the preceding output.

• To list processes with the parent process ID along with the process state, enter the following command:

$ ps -lf

• In the preceding output, the column with S (state) shows the current state of a process, such as R for running and S for suspended state.

• To list all the processes running in the operating system, including the system processes, enter the following command:

$ ps -ef

• The process names in [] are kernel threads. If you are interested in more options for the ps command, you can use the following command:

$ man ps

• To find a particular process, you can...