Linux basics · part 8 of 8 · Processes: PID, ps, top, kill, signals
Something is eating your computer. Can you find it?
A laptop roars because a stuck video export is hogging the processor. ps and top find it, and the penguin carries kill's polite TERM card or holds up kill -9's red card. Turn Process to stop to try the stuck export, a frozen game, or root's Wi-Fi manager.
What you turn: Process to stop
The reel
The full lesson · 9:29
The long version
The same idea, slower: more examples, and pauses to try each step yourself.