• @[email protected]
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    269 months ago

    It’s easy. Just open up a terminal and type

    kill $PID
    

    (Replace the $PID with the process id of the process) if you don’t know the process id you can do

    killall process_name
    

    If these don’t work you can add a -9 to banish them and give them no chance to resist

    • @SoonaPaana
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      59 months ago

      Also please refresh my memory on how to find the process ID

      • @[email protected]
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        119 months ago

        You can do

        ps aux | grep -i 
        

        and the PID is in the second column of the output. However for this use case I recommend a process manager like htop or btop

      • Krzd
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        19 months ago

        top for Ubuntu at least will show you the top processes, I think sorted by averaged CPU usage.

    • unalivejoy
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      49 months ago

      Similarly, $$ is the current PID, $PPID is the parent PID. (Bash)

        • unalivejoy
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          49 months ago

          With suicide, you have a chance to get your affairs in order. kill -9 $$ is hiring an assassin to kill you and not tell you when it will happen. It happens suddenly without warning.

    • @AnUnusualRelic
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      49 months ago

      You probably want to get on the habit of using pkill instead of killall in case you’re ever on a different system. You could have a surprise.