Kill is an operation of removing an object or process from memory so that other processes/variables can use them.
Questions tagged [kill]
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Is there any way to kill a Thread?
Is it possible to terminate a running thread without setting/checking any flags/semaphores/etc.?
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How to kill a process on a port on ubuntu
I am trying to kill a process in the command line for a specific port in ubuntu.
If I run this command I get the port:
sudo lsof -t -i:9001
so...now I want to run:
sudo kill 'sudo lsof -t -i:9001'
I get this error message:
ERROR: garbage process…
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Kill detached screen session
I learned from somewhere a detached screen can be killed by
screen -X -S [session # you want to kill] kill
where [session # you want to kill] can be gotten from
screen -ls
But this doesn't work. Anything wrong? What's the correct way?
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What killed my process and why?
My application runs as a background process on Linux. It is currently started at the command line in a Terminal window.
Recently a user was executing the application for a while and it died mysteriously. The text:
Killed
was on the terminal. This…
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How can I kill a process by name instead of PID, on Linux?
Sometimes when I try to start Firefox it says "a Firefox process is already running". So I have to do this:
jeremy@jeremy-desktop:~$ ps aux | grep firefox
jeremy 7451 25.0 27.4 170536 65680 ? Sl 22:39 1:18…
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How to kill all processes matching a name?
Say I want to kill every process containing the word amarok. I can print out the commands I want to execute. But how do I actually make the shell execute them. ie.
ps aux | grep -ie amarok | awk '{print "kill -9 " $2}'
Output:
kill -9 3052
kill -9…
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How can I stop a running MySQL query?
I connect to mysql from my Linux shell. Every now and then I run a SELECT query that is too big. It prints and prints and I already know this is not what I meant. I would like to stop the query.
Hitting Ctrl+C (a couple of times) kills mysql…
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Linux: kill background task
How do I kill the last spawned background task in Linux?
Example:
doSomething
doAnotherThing
doB &
doC
doD
#kill doB
????
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What does 'killed' mean when processing a huge CSV with Python, which suddenly stops?
I have a Python script that imports a large CSV file and then counts the number of occurrences of each word in the file, then exports the counts to another CSV file.
But what is happening is that once that counting part is finished and the exporting…
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What does `kill -0 $pid` in a shell script do?
Basically, what signal does '0' represent, because here I see SIGNAL numbers starting from 1.
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Kill process by name?
I'm trying to kill a process (specifically iChat). On the command line, I use these commands:
ps -A | grep iChat
Then:
kill -9 PID
However, I'm not exactly sure how to translate these commands over to Python.
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Why number 9 in kill -9 command in unix?
I understand it's off topic, I couldn't find anywhere online and I was thinking maybe programming gurus in the community might know this.
I usually use
kill -9 pid
to kill the job. I always wondered the origin of 9. I looked it up online, and it…
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The GNU screen is unresponsive, seems blocked
GNU Screen seems to freeze. Unable to enter user input.
I was using GNU screen and when I pressed the screen it became unresponsive. I can execute all the GNU screen commands, but can't enter user input. I don't want to kill this screen as I have…
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shell script to kill the process listening on port 3000?
I want to define a bash alias named kill3000 to automate the following task:
$ lsof -i:3000
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
ruby 13402 zero 4u IPv4 2847851 0t0 TCP *:3000 (LISTEN)
$ kill -9 13402
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How to kill a nodejs process in Linux?
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 9631/node
How do I kill this process in linux(ubuntu)?
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