Question

Your computer is slowing down because you’ve started a process that is taking most of the memory and CPU resources. Which of the following commands enables you to find the process id so you can stop that process?
ps
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Answer 1

Answer:

ps is the command that enables you to find the process id so that you can stop that process. In fact, ps is an abbreviation of "Process Status".

Explanation:

ps is a Unix/Linux command which is commonly used to find information on current running processes in a computer. The process id will be shown in a column named "PID". The other useful information shown by the ps command includes the amount of CPU time in minutes and second that a process has been running ("TIME").

In practice, ps is used along with another Unix command, kill, to identify a target process and stop the process. Firstly, ps command is used to identify the PID of a target process (e.g. the process that consume most of the memory and CPU resources).  It is then followed with fetching the PID to the kill command to stop the process.