Process management commands

In general, Kali Linux is a stable system. However, things may occasionally go wrong, and sometimes, we will wish to tweak the system to better suit our needs. In this section, we will take a brief look at how we can manage processes on a Kali Linux system.

Htop utility

Before I start listing all of the built-in commands for managing the processes in Kali, there is a handy tool that I always use. Unfortunately, it's not preinstalled on Kali. It's called htop. This command-line tool lists all of the running processes in the Terminal window, in a nice, user-friendly layout:

#To install it
apt-get install htop
# To execute it
htop

Through using htop, I can see that I have a memory issue which...