Kill Kill Kill!

maimezvousmaimezvous
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I need to kill a process. It's from a widget I installed, then uninstalled and trashed. It's running my processor really hard, and the fans on my MacBook are running. They have been doing that for the past hour. So how do I kill this process in Terminal? I know I could restart, but I would much rather learn how to kill individual processes.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    slewisslewis Posts: 2,081member
    Apple Menu>Force Quit
  • Reply 2 of 5
    maimezvousmaimezvous Posts: 802member
    You can't kill an individual process from the Force Quit menu. I would just quit Dashboard, but you can't even do that from the Force Quit menu.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    Activity Monitor shows widgets.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    maimezvousmaimezvous Posts: 802member
    Cool. I didn't think of that. Thanks Chucker. My fans have already noticeably slowed down.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    As far as killing from Terminal,



    sudo killall <processname>



    or



    sudo kill <process ID>



    sudo not required if it is your own process.
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