Process management tools

Managing processes means learning about the ways in which processes work and the specific text-mode tools that we can use to manage them. We are going to start by introducing some simple concepts – explain what processes are and which states they can be in – and then we're going to move on to commands and how to use them to manage processes from an administrative standpoint. That means that we are going to learn 10+ new commands/concepts that are necessary to understand how all of this works.

Getting ready

The vast majority of commands and utilities that we are going to use in this recipe come pre-installed with our Linux distribution. That being said, there are a couple of cool additional tools we can use to further drive the point of managing processes and system resources home. So, let's install one more utility as it's capable of being used as a tool to monitor system resources along with low-level stuff, such as working...