If you have worked with Linux processes there is a high chance that you have seen these terms, zombie process and orphan process. They can be confusing sometimes, in this article we are going to look at the difference between an orphan process and a zombie process with help of some C coding. What is
When you are running a web server it is really important to keep the track of process which are consuming most resources. We will see the command to get top ten processes consuming most CPU Command to get top ten processes consuming most CPU Such tracking is important when there is a DOS attack and you
When it comes to servers it is really important to keep track of memory, cpu utilization, which processes are taking what amount of CPU, what process are orphan processes etc. All these are required to take necessary step like kill a process if it is taking a lot of CPU or trigger autoscaling when CPU