processes

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Proccesses

See running items in current terminal with

1ps

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or more with

1ps -a

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Or the entire system with

1ps -e

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Or the entire system with more information, BSD style, with:

1ps aux

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And then search for a particular program with

1ps aux | grep cmus

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Pause a job with ^z. Put it in the background with the '&' suffix.

List jobs in the current shell with

1jobs

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And then you can pull number 1 up again with

1fg 1

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Or continue running a stopped job with:

1bg 1

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This changes how nice a program is, from -20 to 19.

Install a program, but nicely, at nice value '10':

1nice -10 sudo apt -y install libreoffice

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Aggressively use Steam, with a nice value of '-13'.

1nice --13 steam&

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Find out that Steam's fucking everything up, so you change its nice value with 'renice':

1renice --5 -p 3781

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Nerf all of roach-1's processes:

1renice 10 -u roach-1

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... or the entire group

1renice -14 -g hackers

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