How To Kill a Process in the Linux terminal

[Admin]

Sometimes things go wrong and we have to kill a running process. In this how-to we show you how easy this can be via the terminal.

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[Elliot Foley]

Neat article. Unfortunately, I already knew all of this. I wish you had also mentioned EarlyOOM, which is a pretty neat tool I found that automatically kills the highest RAM-eating process if your total usage exceeds a threshold certain threshold. Nice for when you're actually running out of RAM so badly that your desktop environment is freezing up. Helpful guide for beginners though!