Re: killing old netscapes
On 15 Oct 2000, Matthew Emmett wrote:
> When netscape screws up and dies, it sometimes leaves it's "dns
> helper" process, which takes up memory/swap. Does anyone know of a
> way to clean up these old netscape processes, without killing the
> netscape that is currently running?
Launch top. The dead netscape is often still running like a chicken with
its head cut off and putting a dangerous load on the system. top will show
you the <PID> of the errant process. Kill it with:
$ kill -s 9 <PID>
Dwight
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Dwight Johnson
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