Linux, PS and Kill - feel the power
This tutorial is meant for beginner to intermediate Linux users. Advanced users will probably find it boring and know more options than we’re going to discuss here, which will lead to some sort of flame war based on which switch is best.
Ever find yourself on a Linux box with a program that just won’t die? You click the X if it’s graphical or you sit in command mode land and watch via the top command as a process eats up your resources. Here’s a quick and dirty way to get rid of this pesky program. You kill it!
But how? You ask. How does one kill a runaway program? Let’s open up a command line interface and we’ll go through the process. First, you’ll want to identify the program (either your system will be really slow with nothing visible running or you’ll have a crashed program sitting on top of your GUI being annoying).
In a Gnome based system, go to Applications-> Accessories -> Terminal.
Now that you’ve got a terminal open, let’s look at what processes are running.
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