{"id":48,"date":"2018-07-25T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T08:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidds.co.za\/?p=48"},"modified":"2018-07-25T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T08:22:21","slug":"killing-hung-processes-the-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidds.co.za\/index.php\/2018\/07\/25\/killing-hung-processes-the-easy-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Hung Processes The Easy Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you are running an application and for whatever reason, it hangs.<\/p>\n<p>You could use &#8216;ps -ef&#8217; to find the process and then kill the process or you could use htop.<\/p>\n<p>There is a quicker and easier command that you will love called xkill<\/p>\n<p>Simply type the following into a terminal and then click on the window of the application you want to kill.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>xkill<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What happens though if the whole system is hanging?<\/p>\n<p>Hold down the &#8216;alt&#8217; and &#8216;sysrq&#8217; keys on your keyboard and whilst they are held down type the following slowly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>REISUB<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This will restart your computer without having to hold the power button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you are running an application and for whatever reason, it hangs. You could use &#8216;ps -ef&#8217; to find the process and then kill the process or you could use htop. There is a quicker and easier command that you will love called xkill Simply type the following into a terminal and then click on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidds.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidds.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidds.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidds.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidds.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kidds.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/kidds.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidds.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidds.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidds.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}