02-22-2014
With everything that you have told us (a system was slow, a memory-hogging process terminated), you haven't given us any clue as to who or what might have terminated the process.
Did the terminated process have a log file? If so, does it indicate why it terminated?
Was your system running job accounting? If so, does it indicate why the job in question terminated? Does it indicate if anyone ran the kill command close to the time when the job in question terminated?
Who was logged in when the process terminated?
What else was running when the process terminated?
Why was the system running slow?
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kill(1) General Commands Manual kill(1)
Name
kill - send a signal to a process
Syntax
kill [-sig] processid...
kill -l
Description
The command sends the TERM (terminate, 15) signal to the specified processes. If a signal name or number preceded by `-' is given as first
argument, that signal is sent instead of terminate. For further information, see
The terminate signal kills processes that do not catch the signal; `kill -9 ...' is a sure kill, as the KILL (9) signal cannot be caught.
By convention, if process number 0 is specified, all members in the process group (that is, processes resulting from the current login) are
signaled. This works only if you use and not if you use To kill a process it must either belong to you or you must be superuser.
The process number of an asynchronous process started with `&' is reported by the shell. Process numbers can also be found by using It
allows job specifiers ``%...'' so process ID's are not as often used as arguments. See for details.
Options
-l Lists signal names. The signal names are listed by `kill -l', and are as given in /usr/include/signal.h, stripped of the common SIG
prefix.
See Also
csh(1), ps(1), kill(2), sigvec(2)
kill(1)