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What is the difference between ps and top command?
What is the difference between ps and top command ? I see that both can display information about running processes . Which one should be used when ?
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Very large values for utime and stime for foo. Is foo still running?
I am running a program foo
It has been running for close to 30 days now (even more)
Until around 10 days ago (I cannot be very exact) it used 100% of one cpu on my dual core laptop (it was at the ...
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Task management tools with keyboard navigation that run in a terminal
I recently learned that I can use top with my keyboard to kill processes (k), show processes for a specific user only (u), etc. But I was wondering if there is a way of selecting processes from the ...
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How to make a process invisible to other users?
How could you launch a process and make it invisible to the top command? The process is started by a normal user (not root), and should not be visible to other normal users.
