Process Lifecycle and Priority Analysis Full

Students understand how Linux coordinates CPU resources by observing real-world process states. • Task 1: Use top, htop, and ps to identify processes in Running, Sleeping, and Zombie states. Explain the conditions for a process to become a "Zombie" and how the system cleans them up. • Task 2: Practice changing the Nice value (NI) of a running process (e.g., a heavy file compression process). Observe the changes in %CPU and completion time. • Task 3: Analyze the process tree structure using pstree to find the parent process (PPID) of common services and explain the role of the systemd process (PID 1)