Working with processes

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To get the list of all running processes on the system you would type:

ps aux

You can see all processes there along with CPU/Memory percentage of use under your system. All processes contain their names and PIDs.

To kill process you can use kill command, kill [pid] would terminate the process.

Usually when process hangs, you would need to send to the kernel force kill signal -9, kill -9 [pid] would that way remove the running process by force and it's usually the fastest way to remove the running process.

There is also a killall command which would kill all the processes running under a specific name.

For example:

killall -9 java

would immediately terminate all java processes.