Understanding what runs on your Linux system (and why)


Michael Boelen


Linux processes and daemons Each Linux system has a bunch of processes running. What is a process? For example, when you type in a command like ls, it sees this as a known command and executes it. How much memory has the system available? While there are whole books about memory management, you can see this field as the memory it needs to put the program into memory.


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