In this 1-hour long project-based course on Linux: Intro to process and system resource management for DevOps, you will be working entirely on the command line and using powerful Linux commands such as ps -ef, top, and pstree to learn how process and system resources work and are managed in Linux. You will be starting, stopping, searching and viewing running processes and seeing how they are all linked together in the process hierarchy. You will no longer be mystified by what these commands and options are doing, and you will be able to effectively start administering server processes.
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What you'll learn
Use various Linux commands to manipulate and manage processes
Use tools available on the command line for process management and to view and debug processes
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In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Introduction to the course and What is a Process (4 min)
Working with Processes (kill, pidof, sigterm, sigkill) (8 min)
Working with The Process Hierarchy (7 min)
Managing Process Resource Consumption (9 min)
Using the 'free' command to understand available memory (6 min)
Recommended experience
- Linux file system navigation
- Basic file commands such as ls, touch, mkdir, rm, cat, and basic i/o redirection: grep, piping etc
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