On Saturday 24 March 2007 11:23:13 pm BandiPat wrote:
On Saturday 24 March 2007, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Donald D Henson wrote:
Hi Donald,
I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem seems to have something to do with You Tube.) When I try to start up another instance of Firefox, I get an error message that tells me to either close the current process or to reboot the system. Rebooting is not a good solution. I remember from the 'old days' that there is a cli command to identify a process id and another one to kill a process. I've searched my memory and the User Manual but cannot identify those two commands. Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated.
I think the command you are looking for is 'top' ie executed from an unprivleged user: $> top
This will give you a listing of the processes and their pid' although with the update frequency set high, it is difficult to identify the correct pid as the lines of the displayed processes keep changing.
Rather use one of the other post' recommendations.
Regards Hylton
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Donald, Another program that works very well is ksysguard. It's a very good gui for viewing the processes running and allows you to kill them easily. Just use ctrl-esc keys to activate it from your KDE interface.
Also, if you guys love "top" a lot, take a look at "htop"! I don't know if SuSE has a rpm for this or not, but it would be worth someone building. Maybe Packman has it. It also runs from the command line but makes using top so much easier! Plus, you have the complete list of programs running at a glance with the ability to kill, etc. any, much like ksysguard. It's also mouse & cursor keys accessible.
And Donald, You Tube & Flash seem to be a constant source of problems such as you experienced. Maybe Adobe will get it right one day or people will just quit using it.
You can get htop via smart. Fred -- If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson. "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." Thomas Jefferson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org