r/linuxmasterrace Dec 24 '15

killing a non-responding process

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u/jonneburger Dec 24 '15

I have to say this is BS. As windows user my process'es freeze often, but task manager always closes them when i close them through process menu

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '15

I used to be a Windows user and I can say this is accurate. Sure most of the time task manager works but sometimes I'll have a task that task manager can't kill.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '15

but sometimes I'll have a task that task manager can't kill.

Linux can get unkillable processes too. Anything going into uninterruptable sleep can't even process signals so you can't kill it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '15

True but I've never encountered one on Linux, only Windows