Managing Processes

• Just hit Ctrl-C on foreground processes

• Locating processes with ps -auxww

  • USER PID %CPU%MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
  • willem 3668 0.5 0.1 1116 416 pts/0 S 08:04 0:00 bpsh -NY diamond
  • willem 3669 0.0 0.1 1124 428 pts/0 R 08:04 0:00 bpsh -NY diamond
  • willem 3670 0.5 0.0 0 0 ? RW 08:04 0:00 [diamond]

• [diamond] is the process stub

• Killing the stub kills the process on the slave

  • kill 3670
    • bpsh: Child process exit abnormally.
  • killall diamond
    • bpsh: Child process exit abnormally.

Notes: