Process management is one of the important aspects of System Administration in Linux, and it includes killing of processes using the kill command. A process on a Linux system can be a running occurrence of an application or program. You can also refer to processes as tasks executing in the operating system. In this how-to, we shall look at killing of less productive or unwanted processes on your Linux system.
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