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Old 04-04-2006
Java How ti kill a process which is consuming so much time

There is a process which is consuming too much time.. how to find that process and kill it.
# 2  
Old 04-04-2006
use ps -ef|grep program_name to get the pid of process.
then use kill command.

syntax is
kill pid1 pid2 ....
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Old 04-04-2006
for i in `ps -eaf | grep "programname" | tr -s " " | cut -f2 -d " "`
do
kill -9 ${i}
done


ps -eaf | grep "programname" | tr -s " " | cut -f2 -d " " --- This should return all process ids.
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Old 04-04-2006
here...

First, make sure that process does consume too much of CPU by using “top” command. Second, make sure (as far as it is possible) that process is independent; it means that it has no parent process that will relaunch it again by “pstree” command or by following the parent process from “ps -ef” or “ps -aux” (depending on UNIX clone).
As you decided to kill process try first not to use “-9” because much of junk will remain in memory and it may make “zombie” from other processes that may depend on this one. Better use SIGSTOP signal. In Linux SIGSTOP is number 19 so “kill -19 PID”, you can check what it is in your system by “kill -l” command , it will print the complete list of signals your UNIX can handle. With SIGSTOP, the process will stop gracefully as system has requested it to be stopped. You can use “-9” in a case the process is broken, its structures are corrupted and it does not response to the signals. “-9” option will remove process brutally with no concerns of data it possibly may have in memory or child processes it may have. Take “UNIX Essentials and UNIX Core” DVD if you have questions like that.
 
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