On Unix/Linux systems, there are quite a few commands that can provide insights into the processes that are running, the resources those processes use, and the users responsible for them. Some of ...

The pgrep command is a tool for looking through currently running processes based on a number of different attributes and providing the process IDs (PIDs), but it does a lot of other things as well.

A reader recently asked how he could most easily terminate processes that were left running after his users had logged off a system. The processes in question were apparently consuming resources ...