List of all running processes of linux

First, start off by listing the processes that are running on your machine (i.e. their names). You can do so via the following command:

ps -e

After running the above command you'll see a list of running process and their names. Find the one you're interested in (or the one you think you're interested in) and then use its name in the following command:

ps -U www-data -u www-data u

In this case we used the name 'www-data'. You should see the instances of that process listed and the percentage of memory/cpu each is using.

Lastly, you may be wondering what the 'ps' command does (other than what you've observed here). If you run the following command, you can read all about it:

man ps

Lastly (again), the 'top' command is really awesome. It does the same stuff as the commands above but in real-time:

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