Process Life Cycle

A short while back, I had to do a revision about process life cycle in the operating system, Linux specifically. Last time that I had to learn about this topic was back in the good old days in college. I don’t know when I need to review it again, so I think it’s a good idea to dump what I’ve learned including the references to this topic. Also, I will only focus mainly on the 5-state model....

August 3, 2024 · 2 min · 372 words · kenno

Kill all processes of a user

The following command will kill all processes belong to a single user on Linux. pkill -u username Credit: Linux – Kill all processes for a user

May 9, 2011 · 1 min · 26 words · kenno