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An engineer received an alert affecting the degraded performance of a critical server. Analysis showed a heavy CPU and memory load. What is the next step the engineer should take to investigate this…
The correct answer is C. Run "ps -ef" to understand which processes are taking a high amount of resources. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/62182/please-explain-this-output-of-ps-ef-command
Submitted by tom_us· Mar 6, 2026Host-Based Analysis
Question
An engineer received an alert affecting the degraded performance of a critical server. Analysis showed a heavy CPU and memory load. What is the next step the engineer should take to investigate this resource usage?
Options
- ARun "ps -d" to decrease the priority state of high load processes to avoid resource exhaustion.
- BRun "ps -u" to find out who executed additional processes that caused a high load on a server.
- CRun "ps -ef" to understand which processes are taking a high amount of resources.
- DRun "ps -m" to capture the existing state of daemons and map required processes to find the gap.
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https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/62182/please-explain-this-output-of-ps-ef-command
Topics
#process monitoring#Linux commands#resource utilization#troubleshooting
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