A Service Keeps Restarting

List, filter, and stop processes from the command line with a stronger habit of inspecting before terminating.

Understand when a background job is enough, when a persistent session is better, and when the operating system should supervise the work as a service.

Check CPU, memory, and disk pressure more systematically so a slow system is diagnosed from evidence instead of guesses.

Connect services to process supervision so start failures, restart loops, and service health are easier to diagnose before you restart anything.

Inspect, start, stop, restart, and enable services on Windows and Linux while using logs and status output to verify the result.

Understand what systemd is responsible for and practice basic service inspection before attempting custom service creation.

Practice reasoning about whether work should stay in the shell, move to a persistent session, or be treated as a supervised service.

Use journalctl to view recent logs, filter by service and time, and run one non-interactive error query.

Check whether a service is running, restarting, stopped, or unhealthy before you restart or kill anything.

Understand how programs become processes, how jobs differ from services, and where CPU and memory pressure appear.

Choose inspect, stop, restart, or escalate with a calmer process and service decision flow instead of acting from frustration.