If there’s a program that isn’t responding, you may manually terminate this system by utilizing the kill
command. This command will ship a selected sign to the unresponsive software and instruct the applying to terminate itself.
There are forty-six indicators in whole that you should utilize, however typically these two indicators are used:
-
SIGTERM (15)
— prompts a program to cease working and provides it a while to avoid wasting its state. If you don’t specify the sign when coming into the kill command, this can be used. -
SIGKILL (9)
— forcibly terminates course of instantly. You lose the unsaved state.
Aside from figuring out the indicators, you additionally must know the method identification quantity (PID
) of this system you wish to terminate. In the event you have no idea the PID
, run the ps ux
command.
Be aware: To look straight for a course of, you should utilize grep:
ps ux | grep <course of identify>
After ensuring you already know which sign to make use of and the PID
of this system, enter the next syntax:
kill -<sign> <PID>