Wednesday, July 15, 2009

How to end unresponsive programs in Linux?

I have Red-Hat Linux System installed in my laptop.Sometimes my laptop hangs because of some unresponsive program.Is there any way to force terminate that program like in windows?

How to end unresponsive programs in Linux?
Use the command 'ps' to list all running processes (do a 'man ps' for all possible switches). After that, use 'kill' to kill the process in question. 'kill -9' will force termination. Do a 'man kill' for more details on using it.


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