Process Management

Romain Lerallut

rom1@users.sourceforge.net

A documentation about how to manage processes under Linux

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Revision History
Revision v0.03	30 May 2001	Revised by: rml
Changes in the title page.
Revision v0.02	24 May 2001	Revised by: rml
Added the FDL License.
Revision v0.01	5 May 2001	Revised by: rml
Started this whole thing.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. Credits
1.2. Feedback

2. Unix and processes

3. Process Management

3.1. Finding info about a process
3.2. Signals
3.3. Nice and priorities
3.4. Renice a job's priorities

4. Tips and Tricks

4.1. Killing processes

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