process management

1) What is process ?
2) How to see the process running on a server?
3) Exlain the top command?
4) How to kill the process?
5) What is jombie process and how to check those in server?
6) What is nice value? How to change the nice value?
7) Server performance is slow.How do you troublehoot with top command.
8) how to see available cpus in server from top command and also command line
9) how to see the defunct (jombie) process pids ?
Answer: ps -ef |grep -i defunct
10) if you see one process consuming more cpu/memory..How do you proceed to fix it?
11) what are different states of a process?
12) how to kill the jombie processes?
13) what is the signal means? ( example kill -9 )..what is 9 here?