View Running Processes from the Command Line

Run the following command:

ps aux | grep -v grep | wc -l

Run one of the following commands:

uptime

cat /proc/loadavg

Run the following command:

ps -U cloud_user | wc -l

Run the following command:

ps aux | grep xfce4-session | grep -v grep

View the current threads reported in the PID's status. Replace <PID_VALUE> with the PID value obtained from the last objective (the value after cloud_u+):

cat /proc/<PID_VALUE>/status | grep Threads

Create a new file named /home/cloud_user/bin/threads.sh, and add the following script:

#!/bin/bash
 
if [ -n $1 ]
then
  _pid=$(ps aux | grep -E "$1\$" | grep -v grep | grep -v threads.sh | awk '{print $2}')
  cat /proc/$_pid/status | grep Threads
fi

Make the script executable with chmod u+x bin/threads.sh.

Determine the number of threads the xfce4-session process is running with ./bin/threads.sh xfce4-session.