Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:59:42 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: guenther.schmidt@bigfoot.de Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Processes that have been terminated still resident in system! Message-ID: <20010114175942.A26240@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <3A6237BF.2192ED1D@web.de>; from gue.schmidt@web.de on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:35:28AM %2B0100 References: <3A6237BF.2192ED1D@web.de>
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Guenther Schmidt (gue.schmidt@web.de) wrote: > I'm using 4.2 Stable. I found that when I finish with certain programms > I can still see them taking up rescources under top. Namely netscape and > Staroffice. > > This continued even after I logged out from X, process was still > resident. > > Is this because the programs are natively linux programms or is it just > something that happens occasionaly? It shouldn't have anything to do with them being Linux programs. It probably has to do with the fact that Netscape and StarOffice are gigantic and buggy. I wouldn't worry too much about it unless it happens consistently. What happens if you try and kill the processes? Find the process ID via 'ps -acx | grep netscape' (for example), and use the kill command to signal the process to quit. I usually try kill without any arguments to allow the program to quit gracefully. If that fails, you can kill the process with kill -KILL, which processes may not ignore. You can also kill the process directly from top, by typing 'k'. -- Christopher Farley Northern Brewer / 1150 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105 www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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