Linux offers a number of tools for examining your running processes. With the applications shown below, you can find out which applications are eating all your memory and which files are attached to those rogue programs. Or you can just get a global view of how your system is performing.

Regardless of your specific level of interest, this tutorial will offer you a starting point on that journey.

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• iotop
• monit
• lsof
• ps_mem