Viewing processes
You can view a table that shows currently running processes and information about them.
There are several tools for this:– Both of these update in real time so you can see what is going on
One is top
man top
top
The other is htop, which is the same as top, but has a colour output.
man htop
htop
These are really useful tools, there is also ps
man ps
$ ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
51221 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
51239 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
ps -a
PID TTY TIME CMD
51251 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
ps -u
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
psutton 51221 0.0 0.0 11284 5504 pts/0 Ss 22:51 0:00 bash
psutton 51256 0.0 0.0 13760 4608 pts/0 R+ 22:53 0:00 ps -u
ps -x
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
2016 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
2017 ? S 0:00 (sd-pam)
2029 ? S<sl 0:13 /usr/bin/pipewire
2030 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire -c filter-chain.conf
2031 ? S<sl 0:00 /usr/bin/wireplumber
2033 ? S<sl 0:21 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
Note : Above is NOT full output,
If you are ever unsure as to what a process is, you can try seeing if there is a man page.
NAME
pipewire - The PipeWire media server
If not, you can look it up using a search tool such as duckduckgo, which from this I found info on wireplumber on the Arch Linux wiki.
Links
Tags
#Bash,#Tools,#Processes,#htop,#top
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