Sunday, 12 March 2017

Kill

Just another note to myself.

Using Kill

Noticed my CPU was using 3 out of the 4 cores at 100% and the fan was pretty noisy.

I initially thought it was Cinnamon but it wasn't.

I opened Terminal and used Top

Top

This listed the top three processes being used by FoxitReader. Earlier I had accidently tried to open a file with it that was not PDF.

Top showed me the process PID

So a quick ALT & F2 to open a console and kill followed by the PID shown next to each of the instances killed these processes and my CPU use dropped like a stone.

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