At 15:40 Uhr +0000 19.01.2003, Hugh Saunders wrote:
ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill
Possibly those are threads, not distinct processes. If this is the case (in case of threads ps aux reports the same amount of memory for each; only looking at the xine docs or source can tell for sure) it should be enough to kill *one* of those process ids. (And of course, killall xine works too, but this just looks at the process name so in general is a bit dangerous.)
Christian.