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Linux System Monitoring

Monitoring Processes (ps command)

More information at (https://www.tecmint.com/ps-command-examples-for-linux-process-monitoring/)

ps -eo user,pid,ppid,cmd,%mem,%cpu --sort=-%mem | head # Top running processes by highest memory usage.
ps -eo user,pid,ppid,cmd,%mem,%cpu --sort=-%cpu | head # Top running processes by highest cpu usage.
kill -9 2583 2584 # Kill a process using its PID.