its not weird computing habits....and it has happened on every system i've used and also happens to my brother and mother and obviously many people here
if an app hangs.....which is THE REASON TO FORCE QUIT......and you try to....it doesn't on first try more often than not.
and its annoying and stupid as hell.
I have the same problems than yours.
Brad do not have this problems.
So it's seems that this problems is only for AO mod, and Admin are protected : man that sucks
escapepod is a little application that lets you terminate the frontmost application by hitting Control-Alt-Delete, terminate the Dock by hitting Shift-Control-Alt-Delete, or do a force-logout by hitting Command-Control-Alt-Delete.
There are times that Mac OS X appears to be hung (especially in some games) when it really isn't -- just the frontmost application's GUI is wedged. The Dock also occasionally stops responding under some circumstances, which can be cured by terminating it . Additionally, when the entire GUI appears to be hung, it is safer to do a force-logout than to simply reboot your machine (and it is quicker, too).
Where app name is the program's name when you see it in top or "ps -A"
Woh! sorry I forgot to say not to use this unless force quit does not work and you only have one program open that you want to quit... killall will kill all with the same name.
Threads like this always make me wonder what kind of weird computing habits other people have that make these problems arise.
I almost never have the problems described here and I consider myself to be quite the power user. \
What happens for me is that I'm a portable power user. If something (like MirrorAgent) is eating away my CPU (and consequently my battery life), I try to get it to stop. In my particular case, I've tried (unsuccessfully) to get the iDisk syncing to stop by clicking the little 'x' in the syncing window. I've tried making syncing manual. It usually works, but there are times it doesn't and then the finder gets unresponsive, etc, etc. It maybe that I've encountered this issue more than others because I've very cognizant of CPU usage, especially while I'm out.
Or a "ps -ax | grep "appname" - this will return the PID of the app.
umm "ps -A" will show you all processes/programs running their PID and name. But all you need is the name... at least for the killall command. You would only need the PID if you use the kill command. I use killall because IMO recalling a name is easy compaired to a number. The -9 option gives the process the KILL signal with out -9 the process just gets a TERM(minate) signal which in some cases will not work.
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Originally posted by applenut
its not weird computing habits....and it has happened on every system i've used and also happens to my brother and mother and obviously many people here
if an app hangs.....which is THE REASON TO FORCE QUIT......and you try to....it doesn't on first try more often than not.
and its annoying and stupid as hell.
I have the same problems than yours.
Brad do not have this problems.
So it's seems that this problems is only for AO mod, and Admin are protected : man that sucks
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escapepod is a little application that lets you terminate the frontmost application by hitting Control-Alt-Delete, terminate the Dock by hitting Shift-Control-Alt-Delete, or do a force-logout by hitting Command-Control-Alt-Delete.
There are times that Mac OS X appears to be hung (especially in some games) when it really isn't -- just the frontmost application's GUI is wedged. The Dock also occasionally stops responding under some circumstances, which can be cured by terminating it . Additionally, when the entire GUI appears to be hung, it is safer to do a force-logout than to simply reboot your machine (and it is quicker, too).
escapepod - ambrosia
killall -9 [app name]
Where app name is the program's name when you see it in top or "ps -A"
Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes
Open a term...
Code:
killall -9 [app name]
Where app name is the program's name when you see it in top or "ps -A"
Woh! sorry I forgot to say not to use this unless force quit does not work and you only have one program open that you want to quit... killall will kill all with the same name.
Originally posted by Brad
Threads like this always make me wonder what kind of weird computing habits other people have that make these problems arise.
I almost never have the problems described here and I consider myself to be quite the power user.
What happens for me is that I'm a portable power user. If something (like MirrorAgent) is eating away my CPU (and consequently my battery life), I try to get it to stop. In my particular case, I've tried (unsuccessfully) to get the iDisk syncing to stop by clicking the little 'x' in the syncing window. I've tried making syncing manual. It usually works, but there are times it doesn't and then the finder gets unresponsive, etc, etc. It maybe that I've encountered this issue more than others because I've very cognizant of CPU usage, especially while I'm out.
Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes
Open a term...
Code:
killall -9 [app name]
Where app name is the program's name when you see it in top or "ps -A"
I would say you can retrieve the app name with the "-c" option. To see all apps with their names you would type "ps -axc".
Originally posted by PB
I would say you can retrieve the app name with the "-c" option. To see all apps with their names you would type "ps -axc".
Or a "ps -ax | grep "appname" - this will return the PID of the app.
Originally posted by pensieve
Or a "ps -ax | grep "appname" - this will return the PID of the app.
umm "ps -A" will show you all processes/programs running their PID and name. But all you need is the name... at least for the killall command. You would only need the PID if you use the kill command. I use killall because IMO recalling a name is easy compaired to a number. The -9 option gives the process the KILL signal with out -9 the process just gets a TERM(minate) signal which in some cases will not work.
"man kill" and "man killall" it is a good read.