4.9.1.2. Monitoring process information graphically in KDE

If you're using KDE in Fedora, the menu item System->KSysGuard will start ksysguard and display the window shown in Figure 4-14.

Figure 4-14. KSysGuard window

This tool is very customizable, but the basic display is similar to the GNOME System Monitor, except that the CPU usage is broken down into User% and System%, and the memory size is broken down into VmSize (total process size) and VmRSS (Resident Set Size, the portion of the VmSize currently in memory instead of swap). Use the Process Table tab to monitor and control running processes.

To customize the display, you can:

Show and hide columns

To remove a column from the display, right-click somewhere within that column (not on the heading) and select Hide Column. To add a column, right-click in an existing column (again, not on the heading), and select Show Column and then the column name you wish to add.

Reorder and resize columns

Drag column headings to rearrange the order in which they are displayed. To change a column width, click between it and an adjacent column, and then drag to the desired width.

Sort a column

Click on a column heading to select that column for the sort sequence. Click on the heading again to toggle between ascending and descending sort order.

Filter by process type

The pull-down menu at the bottom of the display enables you to choose whether to display all processes, system processes (such as servers), user processes for all users, or just your own processes.

To terminate a process, right-click on the process and select Send Signal->SIGTERM. If that doesn't cause the process to terminate within a few seconds, highlight the process and then click the Kill button in the lower-right corner of the window (right-click on the process and select Send Signal->SIGKILL).