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Linux: Find Out What Process Are Using Swap Space

by on January 15, 2013 · 2 comments

The top and free command display the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the server. How do I determine which process is using swap space under Linux operating systems? How do I find out swap space usage of particular process such as memcached?

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Linux: Find All File Descriptors Used By a Process

by on July 1, 2011 · 1 comment

How can I find all the file descriptors used by a process such as httpd (Apache web server) or mysqld (MySQL Database server)?

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Linux / UNIX: Find out or determine if process pid is running

by on August 21, 2007 · 17 comments

Q. How do I find out my process is running? How do I get pid number for particular process? A. The easiest way to find out is run ps aux command and grep process name. If you got output along with process name/pid, your process is running. Task: Find out process pid Simply use ps [...]

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Kill process in Linux or terminate a process in UNIX or Linux systems

by on August 1, 2006 · 85 comments

Q. How do I kill process in Linux? A. Linux and all other UNIX like oses comes with kill command. The command kill sends the specified signal (such as kill process) to the specified process or process group. If no signal is specified, the TERM signal is sent. Kill process using kill command under Linux/UNIX [...]

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