Drakon Process Manager Help

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Table of Contents

• Overview
• Main window
• Changes from previous versions
• Credits
• License

Overview of Drakon Process Manager

Drakon provides a graphical display of the system status and running processes and lets you pause or terminate processes.

Main Window

The main window displays:

CPU history as a scrolling bar chart

Green indicates your processes. Red indicates other processes.

Memory usage as a pie chart

Green indicates free memory. Red indicates memory used by your processes. Dark red indicates other used memory.

Running processes

Either in a list or a tree

By default, only your own processes are shown. You can change this, by turning on "Show processes for all users."

You can sort by the values in a column by clicking the column title.

The leftmost column shows the status of each process. A green dot indicates the the process is running. A red dot indicates that the process is paused. You can change the state by clicking the dot. An X indicates that the process is a "zombie." This means that the process is dead, but has not yet been cleaned up by the system.

You can right-click on a process in the list for a menu of actions.

Ending a process is the nice way to do it. It gives the process a chance to clean up. Killing a process is the brutal way. This should only be done if the the process refuses to end nicely.

Re-nicing a process lowers its priority so it only gets a chance to work when other processes are idle.