How to view all running processes in linux

October 28th, 2008 | by admin |

There are tons of processes run in the background of your system.Some of the process are system’s process and some are the processes of softwares you have opened.A single unwanted process can produce processor bottleneck so it is neccessary to check what processes are running in the background of your system.In windows you can have alook at all running processes by going into task manager.In linux there are two ways to view the running processes.

1) By command Line
From the command line run the following command.
ps -ef
shows every (-e) running process in a full (-f) detailed list.

2) From GUI
Go to System >> Administration >> System Monitor