You can run “strace -p ” command to check if the process is hung or not. If it is running it would issue system calls and based on what system call you can also determine if it is waiting for some IO or trying to read/write a file or waiting for some other child process.

How do I check if a Linux server is hanged?

1: Check in /var/log/messages or may be run dmesg to get some pointer 2: If your system is hanging on regular basis then configure kdump along with sysrq keys to know the exact problem.

How do you check if a process is still running in Linux?

Check running process in Linux

1. Open the terminal window on Linux.
2. For remote Linux server use the ssh command for log in purpose.
3. Type the ps aux command to see all running process in Linux.
4. Alternatively, you can issue the top command or htop command to view running process in Linux.

24 февр. 2021 г.