## Chapter 7: Service and Daemon Administration

As stated in an earlier chapter, processes under Microsoft® Windows NT® will look familiar to UNIX administrators. The tasks are similar, but Windows NT administrators will typically use a single graphical tool instead of the myriad of small UNIX command-line utilities. For the command-line purists, a combination of the built-in Windows NT commands and the "Microsoft Windows NT Resource Kit" provides something close to the functionality of the graphical tools.

On UNIX, the most common method of seeing what processes are running is to use the ps command. This displays a list of processes, along with how much CPU and memory resources they are using. There is also the Top utility, which provides a real-time display of the processes that are using the most system resources. The kill or killall command is used to terminate processes that are out of control or undesirable.

For Windows NT, the Task Manager utility is a graphical combination of all these tools. It will usually be the first place you look for reasons why your system is running slow or when a program is not responding. If you need more information about resource usage, the Performance Monitor application can track processes in minute detail.

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