What is a “subreaper” process?
The word “subreaper” is used in some answers. Searching Google also turn up entries where the word is “just used”.
process-management
What does a program do when it’s sent SIGKILL signal?
When I used killall -9 name to kill a program, the state become zombie. Some minutes later, it stopped really.
So, what’s happening during those minutes?
What happens if you edit a script during execution?
I have a general question, which might be a result of misunderstanding of how processes are handled in Linux.
Why do multiple instances of Mate-terminal have the same PID?
I’ve noticed, that all mate-terminal instances I start, be it inside a mate-terminal or via a link button, have the same PID.
Orphan process’s parent id is not 1 when parent process executed from GNOME Terminal
I start a new process from GNOME Terminal and then this process fork a child.
But when I killed the parent process the orphaned process’s parent id became something other than 1 which represent init --user pid.
When I do this in virtual terminals, the parent pid is 1 which represent init process.
How can I execute new process from GNOME Terminal so that when it is died, the child process’s parent pid became 1 and not pid of init --user process?
Thanks a lot.
How to Throttle per process I/O to a max limit?
I’m looking for a way to limit a processes disk io to a set speed limit. Ideally the program would work similar to this:
Getting a window’s PID by clicking on it
Is there any package which shows PID of a window by clicking on it?
How can I see what processes are running?
I use Ubuntu Server 10.10 and I would like to see what processes are running. I know that PostgreSQL is running on my machine but I can not see it with the top or ps commands, so I assume that they aren’t showing all of the running processes. Is there another command which will show all running processes or is there any other parameters I can use with top or ps for this?
What’s the difference between pkill and killall?
I know that pkill has more filtering rules than killall. My question is, what is the difference between: