Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Linux administration - Finding and killing resource hogging processes

Linux administration - Finding and killing resource hogging processes
https://www.ostechnix.com/kill-largest-process-unresponsive-linux-system/

4 comments:

  1. That's easy. Just sort < /dev/random and the OOM-killer will do the rest.

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  2. I'll have to check it out, but my strategy is usually to run top in a terminal and kill -9 the one(s) abusing the CPU. Sometimes I skip the -9. (However, the system is not totally unresponsive in my scenario)

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  3. Michael Ireland same here, but with HTOP or ATOP.

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  4. Christopher Gaul iotop as well, but less often.

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