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Why is Linux so bad at killing processes that are taking all my memory and causing my computer to halt?
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Shawn 11mo ago

No joy with `killall -HUP`?

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fiatjaf 11mo ago

How can I type that on a completely unresponsible computor?

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Shawn 11mo ago

CTRL+ALT+FN2 (tty 2)?

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Shawn 11mo ago

Can’t ssh in?

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fiatjaf 11mo ago

ssh doesn't work when there is an infinite loop in a process somewhere eating all the CPU and memory.

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Zio Mc 11mo ago

Use nice before your command

man nice

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Shawn 11mo ago

Fair enough, sir.

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Daniele 11mo ago

You don't even know which process?

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fiatjaf 11mo ago

In this specific case I did know what process and I managed to kill it before it hogged the entire computer, but other times I wasn't so lucky.

Running a Linux machine requires some dexterity.

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jimbocoin 🃏 11mo ago

Do you want an operating system? Or do you want an adventure? 🐧

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Orange Julius 11mo ago

Oof. Ctrl+Alt+F2 to a console and either go berserk on the process or create an additional swap on the fly using a swapfile. That might make the SSD hot though by swapping - depends on the process. Godspeed

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guy 11mo ago

No sysrq response either?