Processes using all resources

[Sylviane et Perry White]

On Wednesday 17 September 2008 15:48, Jonas Norlander wrote:
> What do you do when a program is running wild and using all the
> resources and you can't use the computer to kill the process? It
> happened for me when i left the computer for a couple hours with
> firefox running with some flash pages. When i got back the harddisk
> was trashing (I think flash crashed and started to use all my memory)
> and the GUI almost unresponsive, if i moved the mouse, two minutes
> later the mouse pointer moved and open a console, running top to see
> what process using all the resources was out of the question.
>
> So what can one do in that case? And don't the kernel have a function
> that should kill processes using to much resources (was reading about
> that a couple years ago)?
>
> / Jonas

Have you tried "Ctrl-Alt-Esc" ?

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