Running processes

**newto** · January 11th, 2009

I'm very new, I was wondering if there is a way to manage ongoing processes and kill them if necessary. I 'think' I included a screenshot, well at least I tried.... of a GUI IPblocker. I came to the conclusion that bittorrent may be running in the background and I'm not exactly sure how to monitor it or end it. But I would also like to know just for general use how to manage ongoing applications that I may not see in GUI.

**benmoreassynt** · January 11th, 2009

Originally Posted by newto

I'm very new, I was wondering if there is a way to manage ongoing processes and kill them if necessary.

Through the Gnome GUI, open System/Administration/System Monitor. That will allow you to do everything you want.

If you prefer the terminal, type:

Code:

ps -A

Lists all processes.

You can then type

Code:

kill [process number]

**jimmy the saint** · January 11th, 2009

If you use the system monitor gui, you can right click a process and select end process. You also have the option to kill it, but try to end it first and if that doesn't work, then kill it.

**newto** · January 11th, 2009

Thanks all

**Bölvaður** · January 11th, 2009

2 things that I noticed missing was that the gui has just the main programs that are running but ps -A is normally a lot larger list.

The other thing is that you can also use the command xkill to point and kill programs that are running (may be wise to use alt+f2 if you dont have terminal open)