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On Sun, 6 May 2007 19:45:47 +0100 Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry for such a simple question. I must be getting older than I > thought. My memory is failing me rapidly. > > There is a way to see a list of jobs that are running currently. $ ps Or more useful: $ ps waux See man ps for the rest of the options. > Then I > can make a note of any that are causing a problem and can use kill to > stop them. But I cannot remember the command to pull up the list. > Can anyone remind me please? This time I will write it down. You could also use System Monitor in Gnome and I think KDE has something similar. The problem with a GUI monitor is that if the process you want to kill is actually taking all the CPU time and/or memory, then loading a GUI to kill the process isn't exactly helping the CPU! One reason to always keep a terminal window open, I guess. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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