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Basics of Process Management

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What do you do when you can’t make your process stop no matter how many times you click that little X in the corner?

Each of these different things happening on the computer is called a “process”, and your computer takes turns letting all of the processes run a little bit at a time. The computer works so fast that you usually don’t even notice.

But occasionally, a process stops responding to you. What do you do when you can’t make your process stop no matter how many times you click that little x in the corner? You try using the keyboard commands Esc and Ctrl + C. You even try Ctrl + Q, Ctrl + X, and Ctrl + Z; but they don’t work. What do you do next?

To discover the basics of how to manage processes in linux, watch and read the following tutorial.

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