Yes yes, I REALLY want to terminate that process and I am very sure about it too, ty.
Sigterm: "End this process or next time I bring my -9"
My tec-9
Typing “kill -9” into a terminal is the equivalent to breaking out the acetylene torch when a nut won’t budge
xkill is one of my favorite commands
Is there a Wayland equivalent?
Open the process list in your system monitor of choice, right click, signal, sigkill.
You can also open a monitor and use top or any variant to detect the process number and manually kill -KILL number
I really want the convenience of binding xkill to a key, which I can use to double tap programs like the undead zombie they've become.
How the OOM Killer asks a process to terminate:
indiscriminate spraying
mainly wrong, by default kill send a SIGTERM, you can try SIGINT or SIGQUIT too, and in the end SIGKILL of course. Same in windows there is different way
I always go straight for the SIGKILL
Some software: fork()
Me: Welcome to the process gauntlet loser, better not hang for a millisecond or you are dead and gone.
TerminateProcess() is pretty reliable, but it doesn't form part of the C signals stack on Windows like kill -9. So for instance, if you're doing process control on Python, you need to use a special Windows-only API to access TerminateProcess().
I feel like I've had the opposite experience in the gui (maybe a KDE issue?) closing gui windows frequently lock up, and I find I frequently have to drop to the command line in order to properly kill some programs
That's because the end proces of the GUI sends a sigint, which does jack shit if the program hangs, you only archieve for a higher parent process to obtain it until it can off itself gracefully. You need to right click the process and send a sigkill signal to emulate the command line.
It even kills threads currently executing a system call! The brutality!
Never even returned to userspace…
KDE now too
KDE can murder windows instantly (you have to set a shortcut), or you can also just send SIGKILL to the process
ps aux | grep . kill
kill -9 $(pidof )
killall works great for this.
At that point you can just hard restart as well. Most motherboards accept 10 to 15 seconds of power button as "my OS is fucked please help" and restart the machine for you.
killall just kills all instances of a program, not everything.
and also, long pressing the power button should just shut it down, no?
They also accept pulling the power cord out as "oh no" and shutdown for you!
Hint: :q!
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