Size of the X server process growing uncontrollably!
Blair P. Houghton
bph at buengc.BU.EDU
Fri Feb 23 02:00:42 AEST 1990
In article <8518 at shlump.nac.dec.com> michaud at decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) writes:
>I wrote:
>> kill -KILL `ps -aux | grep Xq | grep -v grep | colrm 15 | colrm 1 9`
>
> If you're on a DECstation, you don't want to use Xq, but probably just
> X (Xmfb and Xcfb are the names of the servers for mono and color respectively
> on the DECstation).
>
> (I also prefer using awk '{print $1}' instead of the colrm's, but
> that's just me :-)
Ac-shully, you might want to use: awk '{print $2}'.
And, don't change the one-liner use ps -l. It doesn't list
the X servers by name, at least not if they were started or
restarted by hand.
--Blair
"Pedantry for the Pedestrian
Since 1888."
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