UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi.
I am relatively new to working with Unix OS. In the past few years I worked with windows but programmed on Linux through SSH.

I have been working on a computer with Unix OS for the past few months, and I have a reoccurring problem. One of my processes gets stuck, and the computer freezes. The way to kill the process is to find out the process number and kill it, but because the computer is frozen I can't get to the shell and type commands. Because the computer is not very strong this happens quite a lot and there's nothing I can do besides wait.
Is there any quick solution (something like ctrl-alt-del in windows)?

Thanks,
Guy

what os and what hardware do you use?

Hi,
if you know the name of the command freezing your pc, you can use "killall <command>", it sends a kill -15 to all the pids of the command.
But i think the best is to discover why that process got stuck
Bye

Thanks,
The version I am using is:
Linux l2.6.28mos-1 #2 SMP i686 GNU/Linux
The RAM is 1 Giga. Overall, its a pretty weak computer (it belongs the university), but I still want an exit option when it gets stuck.

Yes, but the problem is I can't type anything because the computer is stuck.

all you can do is to press the reset button. this looks like a "normal" pc?! "real" unix server (not all) have lom (lights out management) to do remote resets and other things with the hardware... like poweron or poweroff... if there isn't a remote console for your mashine and it isn't accessible via ssh/telnet or other remote service, all you can do is to press reset.