# Free See free space with: > free and make it human readable with: > free -h Or `-m` for megabytes. # Proccesses See running items in current terminal with > ps or more with > ps -a Or the entire system with > ps -e Or the entire system with more information, BSD style, with: > ps aux And then search for a particular program with > ps aux | grep cmus # Jobs Pause a job with ^z. Put it in the background with the '&' suffix. List jobs in the current shell with > jobs And then you can pull number 1 up again with > fg 1 Or continue running a stopped job with: > bg 1 # Nice This changes how nice a program is, from -20 to 19. Install a program, but nicely, at nice value '10': > nice -10 sudo apt -y install libreoffice Aggressively use Steam, with a nice value of '-13'. > nice --13 steam& Find out that Steam's fucking everything up, so you change its nice value with 'renice': > renice --5 -p 3781 Nerf all of roach-1's processes: > renice 10 -u roach-1 ... or the entire group > renice -14 -g hackers