Network World

There’s more than one way to kill a Unix process

Terminating processes on Unix systems is not quite an art, but there are sure a lot more options for how to select and terminate Unix processes than there are ways to skin a cat. In this post, we take ...
Ars Technica

Could not end process from taskmgr or with kill command line util -- what's going on here?

I was watching a divx 5 movie in WMP (version 6.4.09.1109) when my movie froze. After a little while I hit close and got a "not responding" message, so I forced a close. Then I opened the movie again ...
Ars Technica

[nix-noob, kill] command to quit a process without PID

I want to create a shell script that can kill a process without having knowledge of the PID.<BR><BR>This is what I do now:<BR><BR>%: top<BR> (find process w/PID)<BR>%: q<BR>%: kill -1 PID<BR><BR><BR>I ...
Lifehacker

Track and kill your Mac's runaway processes

The Hackszine blog offers a command line tip for stopping unruly CPU-hungry processes from making your Mac run too hot for too long: Just open a terminal window and type top -u .... Scribble down the ...