Chapter 13: System Processes and Memory Management

Outline:

Chapter Overview
13.1 UNIX System Processes
13.1.1 System process overview
13.1.2 Types of processes
13.2 Displaying processes 
13.2.1 The ps command
13.2.2 Searching for a specific process
13.3 Terminating Processes
13.3.1 Identifying processes to terminate
13.3.2 Signals and the kill command
13.4 Memory Management
13.4.1 Physical memory (RAM) and swap space
Chapter Summary

Chapter Quiz