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System Configuration—System ManagementIn this chapter, you will learn how to deal with processes as well as manage andmonitor system resources. Knowing how the system resources are being allocatedand how each process is performing will help you tune the system to get the mostout of it. To run an efficient server is only possible by doing efficient resourcemanagement. FreeBSD comes with a complete set of resource monitoring andmanagement tools that let the system administrators get the most out of theirsystems, when used wisely.In this chapter, we will look into the following:• Process management and control• Resource management and control• Process accounting.Process Management and ControlThis chapter goes through some basic (but necessary) information about processesand daemons and will tell you in a nutshell, what a system administrator shouldknow. You need to spend some time knowing your system's running processes andsee how they are performing and how much resource each of them needs. Knowingthis information will help you figure out whether your system is running efficientlyand smoothly. It is also important to detect any abnormal system behavior, bylooking at the output of any relevant process management utility output.