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Managing resources

Computing resource​

Realtime CPU, RAM usage​

To check for the realtime usage of CPU, memory by users and processes, you can use htop.

htop

GPU​

If you are using a NVIDIA GPU and want to check the status of it, you can use nvidia-smi. "SMI" stands for System Management Interface.

nvidia-smi

Processes​

Listing processes​

To list all processes that are running under your username, we use ps command. The aux option is the combination of three flags, a, u, and x.

ps aux

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Kill process​

You can kill your process using the kill command.

kill <process_id>

Directory file size​

To check for the total file size of a specific directory,

du -d 1 -h
  • -d: Depth of the tree structure that you want to calculate the file size of. If you set -d 0 (which is equivalent to -s), it will show the total file size of the current directory.
  • -h: Shows file size in human readable units, such as MB and GB.

Uptime​

uptime