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Check current running processes on Tux

Steps to check your current running processes on VS Code (you can't kill them from Tux, but you can check in case your memory is being occupied)

Steps to check your current running processes on VS Code (you can't kill them from Tux, but you can check in case your memory is being occupied):

  • Count user's processes:
    • ps -u $USER | wc -l
  • List a user's processes:
    • ps -u $USER -f
  • More detailed for above:
    • ps -u $USER -o pid,ppid,%cpu,%mem,etime,cmd
  • Also
    • top -u $USER
  • or
    • htop -u $USER
    • Will show processes using a lot of CPU
  • Also check for
    • ps -ef | grep vscode
    • ps -ef | grep code

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