Managing Programs and Processes

Being able to effectively manage the active programs and processes on your Raspberry Pi allows you to change the way the systems work. If you have a project requiring more memory, you can kill a process to free up the available system resources.

PROGRAMS AND PROCESSES Linux has a trick up its sleeve when it comes to being able to manage programs and processes. When Windows closes a program, the allocated memory often isn’t freed up again. However, Linux is far more streamlined. STEP 1 As you get into Linux you’ll start to hear more about processes and another thing called the “kernel”. The kernel sits beneath the software and hardware. It passes instructions to the hardware running processes, which takes up memory, and when the process is finished it closes it and reclaims the memory. STEP 2 You’re probably used to thinking in terms of programs and most OS’s tend to keep processes out of sight. In Linux on the other hand, you’re right in at the deep end. A process is…

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