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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Command to find out "count" of running process ? Post 302180736 by MITESH KOTHARI on Tuesday 1st of April 2008 02:56:36 AM
Old 04-01-2008
Bug Command to find out "count" of running process ?
Hello Experts,

Can any one help me out to find the command to get "count" of number of processes running in system.

Basically i want to write one crone job to kill some process which making my system hanged. so have to do following things.

1) Find out the number of processes is running.
2) If count reach to some threshold value , use kill command to kill those processes.

I need to know how can I find out count of running processes & crone tab job to run that command.

Thanks in Advance!
MITESH KOTHARI
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

killall

killall(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       killall(1M)

NAME

       killall - kill all active processes

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/killall [signal]

DESCRIPTION

       killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure.

       killall terminates all processes with open files so that the mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted.

       killall sends signal (see kill(1)) to the active processes. If no signal is specified, a default of 15 is used.

       The killall command can be run only by the super-user.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       kill(1), ps(1), fuser(1M), shutdown(1M), signal(3C), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    14 Sep 1992 						       killall(1M)
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