Linux processes quiz
Ten questions across the whole chapter. Each answer explains why. Aim for eight before moving on to chapter 9.
- What is the PID of a process's parent called?
- Which command prints your shell's PID?
- Which ps option set shows every process with full details?
- You started sleep 500 in the foreground. How do you move it to the background?
- What does kill -9 do that kill does not?
- Which pair finds and ends processes by name?
- What does a load average of 8 mean on a 2-CPU server?
- nice -n 10 command ... does what?
- Which command changes the priority of a process that is already running?
- Which command shows the tuned profile in use?