View and Kill current processes on Ubuntu
This post was written by admin on July 19, 2009
Posted Under: General
Posted Under: General
Ubuntu has a command that lists all current processes.If you find the process ID,you can kill it by kill command.
Type following to list all your own running processes
ps ux
And use command to kill any process you want,the second column is PIDnumber.
kill -9 PIDnumber
Ubuntu also has a graphical program to view current processes.Navigate to System–>Administrator–>System Monitor,you will see system processes at Process tab,kill any by select it and click “End Process” button.
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Reader Comments
I have multiple instances opened of the same application, but some of those instances get hung at anytime and I want to kill the, but without killing the ones which are still running… ps -ef is not clear regarding which are are ones hung… they are being lunch by the same command so there is no way from CLI to know the PID of the ones hung… I tried right click–>close in Gnome but the application didn’t die! Please help!!! How can I make sure which is the PID for a hung application when I have multiple instances of the same application running? Is there any way to move the hung application to a “Trash” Workspace and the tell Ubuntu to kill all the applications in “Trash” workspace? Any other idea is welcome. Thanks in advance!
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escadores@hotmail.com Reply:
November 24th, 2011 at 9:42 pm
hi im itrying to do the same here did you find a solution?
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