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Ending processes with top

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Ending processes with top

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- Now let's show how to end processes with top, and we'll throw in a little bit of keyboard shortcuts for working with processes as well. We're still in Lab 31, and so we'll jump over to our Debian system now, and we'll go full screen on here, and run the top program once again. Now, I primarily use top to analyze the system and terminate processes that are not behaving, so this is what I use top for quite often. So, for example, let's say a web browser freezes up, and we'll go and open a web browser once again, jump back into top. So, we open top and we view the processes. So, chances are that if the program is freezing up or using a lot of resources, it'll be listed first at the top. So, we open up top and view the processes. If it's there, that's great, if not, we can do that filter and find it. And the key here is that we're looking for the Process ID, normally, but we don't necessarily have to use that. Within top, we could just press the K letter on the keyboard, which is just…

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