Some process management commands in Linux
jobs
: Will show active jobsbg
: Resume jobs to the backgroundfg
: Resume job to the foreground- To resume a speciic jobs
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Syntax: bg %<job_id> (To resume the job in backround) gh %<job_id> (To resume the job in foreground)
Nice value
Every process has a nice value which range goes from -20 to 10. The lower the value is, the more priority that the process gets.
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# To check the nice value of a process
Syntax:
ps -l <PID>
# To change the priority of a process by chaning its nice value
Syntax:
ps -n <nice vlaue> <PID>
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nohup
If we want our process to keep running even after closing our terminal, we can use nohup.
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Syntax:
nohup process &
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