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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

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A better way to ps -A?

top doesn't show enough information at once sometimes, and I find that I do a lot of digging through ps -A to get PIDs, primarily to kill apps.  Is there a graphical top out there that I could use?

Also, what can I do to kill processes that I know the name of?

sartoo

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-12-28

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Re: A better way to ps -A?

top doesn't show enough information at once sometimes, and I find that I do a lot of digging through ps -A to get PIDs, primarily to kill apps.  Is there a graphical top out there that I could use?

try htop

Also, what can I do to kill processes that I know the name of?

killall $PROGRAM

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morellik

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 43

Re: A better way to ps -A?

Also, what can I do to kill processes that I know the name of?

There is also pkill.

dschrute

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-04-09

Posts: 183

Re: A better way to ps -A?

It's old, and there isn't a package for Arch, but gps is not bad for a graphical ( gtk based ) process list/kill app :
http://gps.seul.org/

tam1138

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Registered: 2007-09-10

Posts: 238

Re: A better way to ps -A?

Don't make the mistake of taking sysadmin duties too seriously: http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/.

F

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Registered: 2006-10-09

Posts: 322

Re: A better way to ps -A?

i just use

$ ps -aux

for all my needs.

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: A better way to ps -A?

pgrep is good, you can grep for pid's. Good when you want to kill multiple pids with similar names, you can pass them to 'kill'

killall is nice and blunt. Simply kills all processes with that name. Chuck a killall -9 in if the process is misbehaving and won't die.

James

Last edited by iphitus (2007-09-15 00:29:19)