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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Also please refresh my memory on how to find the process ID

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

top for Ubuntu at least will show you the top processes, I think sorted by averaged CPU usage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

htop or any process monitor will tell you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

You can do

ps aux | grep -i <part of process name>

and the PID is in the second column of the output. However for this use case I recommend a process manager like htop or btop

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I use ps -aux | grep $EXECUTABLE