kill -9😎You really shouldn’t do that. You risk leaving behind children and locks
That’s why you should ask nicely first with kill -SIGHUP
Then if that doesn’t work you can clean up the murder scene later.Hey man, I’ve got a hammer, and that process looks a lot like a nail.
The process looks like a buggy application
When ive tried asking nicely ima call up my friend sudo.
kill -15Terminate normally if possible.
Tbf, thanks to X11 Linux isn’t safe from stuff like that.
When I use my VR glasses, Steam sometimes creates an uncloseable X window that isn’t attached to any process. I don’t think even killing XWayland gets rid of it.
On Plasma Desktop, pressing Ctrl+Alt+ESC kills anything you click on next, instantly. There is truly nothing you can’t kill that way, even the desktop itself.
wow that sounds so handy, thanks
Don’t think I haven’t tried that.
I also tried the debug menu,
xkillusing the window ID, … it’s immortal.Have you tried silver, crosses or a stake?
Do I need to #include those first?
Haven’t had to use them recently, check out the man?
is that just shortcut to xkill? or own system?
I don’t know, but I think it’s works on Wayland too. Probably something built in.
I’ve run into this, seems like steam VR can’t relaunch properly unless you close till that dead window with a reboot.
taskill /F /IM app.exeThere you go
I’m not sure what this comic is trying to say but in my recent experience a single misbehaving website can still consume all available swap at which point Linux will sometimes completely lock up for many minutes before the out-of-memory killer decides what to kill - and then sometimes it still kills the desktop environment instead of the browser.
(I do know how to use
oom_adj; I’m talking about the default configuration on popular desktop distros.)Real, happened too many times to me. What’s that about configuring the OOM, can you give it priorities?
The canonical documentation is https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst (ctrl-f
oom) but if you search a bit you’ll find various guides that might be easier to digest.https://www.baeldung.com/linux/memory-overcommitment-oom-killer looks like an informative recent article on the subject, and reminds me that my knowledge is a bit outdated. (TIL about the choom(1) command which was added to util-linux in 2018 as an alternative to manipulating things in
/procdirectly…)https://dev.to/rrampage/surviving-the-linux-oom-killer-2ki9 from 2018 might also be worth reading.
How to make your adjustments persist for a given desktop application is left as an exercise to the reader :)
Thanks! Will have to come back to this
I recently had some processes lock up on Linux, and after searching what the “D” symbol in
ps auxwas (Uninterruptable sleep), i found this little line:The only non-sophisticated way to get rid of them is to reboot the system
kill -l1) SIGHUP 2) SIGINT 3) SIGQUIT 4) SIGILL 5) SIGTRAP 6) SIGABRT 7) SIGBUS 8) SIGFPE 9) SIGKILL 10) SIGUSR1 11) SIGSEGV 12) SIGUSR2 13) SIGPIPE 14) SIGALRM 15) SIGTERM 16) SIGSTKFLT 17) SIGCHLD 18) SIGCONT 19) SIGSTOP 20) SIGTSTP 21) SIGTTIN 22) SIGTTOU 23) SIGURG 24) SIGXCPU 25) SIGXFSZ 26) SIGVTALRM 27) SIGPROF 28) SIGWINCH 29) SIGIO 30) SIGPWR 31) SIGSYS 34) SIGRTMIN 35) SIGRTMIN+1 36) SIGRTMIN+2 37) SIGRTMIN+3 38) SIGRTMIN+4 39) SIGRTMIN+5 40) SIGRTMIN+6 41) SIGRTMIN+7 42) SIGRTMIN+8 43) SIGRTMIN+9 44) SIGRTMIN+10 45) SIGRTMIN+11 46) SIGRTMIN+12 47) SIGRTMIN+13 48) SIGRTMIN+14 49) SIGRTMIN+15 50) SIGRTMAX-14 51) SIGRTMAX-13 52) SIGRTMAX-12 53) SIGRTMAX-11 54) SIGRTMAX-10 55) SIGRTMAX-9 56) SIGRTMAX-8 57) SIGRTMAX-7 58) SIGRTMAX-6 59) SIGRTMAX-5 60) SIGRTMAX-4 61) SIGRTMAX-3 62) SIGRTMAX-2 63) SIGRTMAX-1 64) SIGRTMAXI’m so thankful for the OOM killer for saving my system when i do dumb shit
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There’s an old addage when working with any Microsoft product:
“Wait longer”
In other words, your first click was probably doing its thing. You just needed to wait a little longer to see it work.
