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Tutorial | |
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Title: | Introduction to Linux in HPC |
Provider: | HPC.NRW
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Contact: | tutorials@hpc.nrw |
Type: | Multi-part video |
Topic Area: | HPC Platforms |
License: | CC-BY-SA |
Syllabus
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1. Background and History | |
2. The Command Line | |
3. Linux Directory Structure | |
4. Files | |
5. Text display and search | |
6. Users and permissions | |
7. Processes | |
8. The vim text editor | |
9. Shell scripting | |
10. Environment variables | |
11. System configuration | |
12. SSH Connections | |
13. SSH: Graphics and File Transfer | |
14. Various tips |
This tutorial covers the basic principles and treatments of processes in the multi-user operating system Linux. It will explain the viewing (and killing) of processes with a text-based process manager and the execution of processes in background/foreground.
Video
Quiz
What does PID stand for?
How are the permissions of a process set?
Assign the commands their correct meaning
Exercises in Terminal
1. Start a process, bring it into background/foreground.
Hint: |
To bring a process to background: Press Ctrl-Z (pause the process). Type bg (bring it to background). To bring a process to foreground: Display running "jobs" and identify the job ID: jobs Type fg <job-ID> (bring it to foreground). |
2. Start the task manager and identify the process with the largest memory usage.
Hint: |
Start the process manager: top Activate highlighting for current sort column: press 'x' Select column to sort for: press '>' or '<' until column '%MEM' is acitve (optional) Reverse sorting: press 'R' |
3. Start the task manager and filter processes of your user account.
Hint: |
Start the process manager: top Select username to filter: press 'u' and type in username |
4. Start a process (e.g. sleep 10m) and kill it from a second console.
Answer: |
Start the process: sleep 10m Go to a second console. Start the process manager: top Filter process from your user account: press 'u' and type in your account name. Identify the job ('sleep') and note the associated PID. Kill it: press 'k' and type in the PID from previous step. |