Size of the X server process growing uncontrollably!
Blair P. Houghton
bph at buengc.BU.EDU
Sat Feb 24 04:17:23 AEST 1990
In article <8594 at shlump.nac.dec.com> michaud at decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) writes:
>> >> kill -KILL `ps -aux | grep Xq | grep -v grep | colrm 15 | colrm 1 9`
>> >
>> > (I also prefer using awk '{print $1}' instead of the colrm's, but
>> Ac-shully, you might want to use: awk '{print $2}'.
>
> Ac-shully I missed the "u" option you gave to ps. Why bother
> having ps waste time doing getpwuid's, just use "ps ax" :-))).
Ack. Touche'. My only excuse is "cruft." You need the -u in order
to see that the X server has bloated, though not to kill it. That
one-liner, of course, was built up from the command used to see
the problem.
--Blair
"I go fix."
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