How do I quickly stop a process that is causing thrashing (due to excess memory allocation)?
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We've all experienced it--some program is asked to do something that requires a huge amount of memory. It dutifully tries to allocate all this memory, and the system immediately begins thrashing, swapping endlessly and becoming sluggish or non-responsive. I most recently experienced this on my Ubun…
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Press Alt-SysRq-F to kill the process using the most memory: The SysRq key is usually mapped to the Print key. If you're using a graphical desktop you might need to press Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-F in case pressing Alt-SysRq triggers another action (e.g. snap…
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