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In the world of Linux system administration and monitoring, understanding the network usage of individual processes is crucial for performance tuning, security checks, and diagnostics. Although Linux provides a variety of tools for network monitoring, combining the capabilities of /proc/$PID/fd and ss offers a specific and powerful method to get per-process network usage details. A1: The /proc filesystem is a special filesystem in UNIX-like operating systems that presents information about processes and other system information in a hierarchical file-like structure. It is a virtual filesystem that doesn't exist on disk. Instead, it is dynamically created by the Linux kernel.