Track Forking Process Hierarchies

Scenario

System resources are being consumed by an unusually large process tree. You need to identify the parent process with the most children and document its hierarchy.

Task

Identify the process tree with the highest number of child processes and save its hierarchy—including PIDs and full command names (arguments)—to: /home/devops/process_tree_report.txt.

Linux provides the pstree command to display full hierarchical process trees, including PIDs and command arguments.

Example

The file /home/devops/process_tree_report.txt should look similar to this:

spawn_many_workers.sh,159 /home/devops/spawn_many_workers.sh
 ├─sleep,209 infinity
 ├─spawn_many_workers.sh,190 /home/devops/spawn_many_workers.sh
 │  └─sleep,220 60
 ├─spawn_many_workers.sh,191 /home/devops/spawn_many_workers.sh
 ...

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