System suddenly slowed down...

[Tony Nelson]

At 6:15 PM -0400 6/2/05, jludwig wrote:
>On Thursday 02 June 2005 12:19 pm, Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>> In a terminal type:
>>
>> top -bd 30 > topout.txt
>>
>> which will cause top to run in batch mode and delay 30 seconds each time.
>> Nothing will show in the terminal.  Press ^C when you want it to stop.  You
>> could detach (&) the command but then it would be harder to stop, and new
>> terminal windows are easy to make.  The file will have lots of copies of a
>> full top list, giving you some history to work from.
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>Actually you could do a ps -A and then kill "pid", or pkill.
>Check the man pages for these commands.

Uhh, what for?  To kill all processes?  Some particular process?  Is this
easier than typing ^C when one is done with top logging?  Or are you
talking about killing the process that is using up all the memory?
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