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top |
Lists all processes, sorted by CPU percentage
with the highest at the top of the list. |
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ps -eaf | grep program |
Lists all processes and their IDs associated
with the specified program. Wildcard characters can be used to list
a group of related programs (for example, gw*). |
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ps -aux | grep username |
Lists all processes and their IDs associated
with the specified user. |
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kill process_ID |
Stops the specified process like a normal
exit. |
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kill -9 process_ID |
Stops the specified process after it
has failed to exit normally. Temporary files are not cleaned up. |
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killall program |
Kills all processes associated with the
specified program. |
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xkill |
Closes the window that you click on with
the resulting box-shaped cursor. |