[PLUG] Top questions
Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net
Sun May 13 01:49:08 UTC 2012
>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> writes:
John> 1) I can't read the list of running processes easily. I see the
John> application I want to kill, but just as I am about to read its
John> PID, the screen jumps. How do I make the list of running
John> processes sit still?
Two more that I didn't see mentioned are:
a) pidof rhythmbox
which should return a list (zero or more) of the pid's of process
named by the argument; and
b) pstree -p
which lists a nice tree of processes running with parent/child
links. The -p option lists the pid's as well. You can do
something quite similar with /bin/ps, but I never remember the
options; pstree is easier to remember.
As for it not dying, i'm not sure. You could try "strace -p PID",
which should tell you what system calls it is making. It might not be
making any, which would tell you something (ctrl-c to exit strace).
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Russell Senior, President
russell at personaltelco.net
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