Re: how to kill 120 jobs at once.

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

lina wrote, on 01/21/12 07:20:
> Hi,
> 
> I think the jobs were hanged up there,
> 
> top showed that:
>  load average: 120.86, 128.51, 133
> Tasks: 315 total, 122 running, 193 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  0.0% us,  0.0% sy, 100.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> Mem:  114496596k total, 84993724k used, 29502872k fre
> 
> before I could use the ps au | grep nvt | awk '{print $2} | sed
> 's/^.*$/ kill -9 &/g' > kill.sh  and run kill.sh.

Since you are using awk anyhow, how about

ps au | awk '/nvt/ {print "kill -9 "$2}' > kill.sh

> 
> now ps au does not show me this info any more.
> 

Which info do you mean?

> 
> $ ps au
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> root      8085  0.0  0.0  2544   16 tty1     Ss+   2010   0:00 /sbin/mingetty
> root      8086  0.0  0.0  2544   16 tty2     Ss+   2010   0:00 /sbin/mingetty
> lina      27327  0.5  0.0 53980 1600 pts/1    Ss   14:14   0:00 -bash
> lina      27354  0.0  0.0  5464  792 pts/1    R+   14:14   0:00 ps au
> 
> what's the alternative choice,
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>