When running a program that is heavy on resources it sometimes stops everything else from running. Entering Alt-F2 to open a terminal and kill it has no effect and my only recourse is to power off an on my machine. Is this something I just have to tolerate with Ubuntu or do I have any other alternative ways of killing the program?
2 Answers
If your system suffers from an Out-of-memory condition, there is a low-level key combination that will kill the process that uses the most RAM. To do so, press Alt + SysRq + F.
More of these "Magic SysRq Key" combinations can be found here.
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The only Magic SysRq key combo that seems to work for me is Alt+SysRq+b for a hard reboot. Entering any other combinations has no effect for some reason. May 13, 2019 at 17:13
The only solution I have found is to use the Ctrl-Alt-F_ key sequence to open a separate terminal and kill the offending process. Although it usually takes a long while to respond to this key sequence.
free -h
andsysctl vm.swappiness
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