On 25 Feb 2024 16:01 -0500, from m...@jmgresham.xyz (Jonathan Matthew Gresham): > ps -e > > This lists the processes > > In that display (if I'm correct) if you see a program that has > extremely high time, then you should kill the process. > > kill process
_Definitely_ not blindly. For example, among the highest-time processes on my system I currently see xfce4-panel, Xorg, apcupsd, rclone and a few ZFS housekeeping processes. Among slightly lower times, there's xfwm4, pipewire and systemd-journal. (All of these share the trait that they also have been running for a long period of wallclock time.) Another that could show up would likely be qemu/KVM related processes for long-running VMs, but I don't have any up and running currently. And if I'm doing something like watching a movie, mpv or one of its friends would probably be right up there as well. Killing those would have potentially severe negative impacts on my ability to actually use the computer to perform normal, useful tasks. _That a process is doing a lot of work doesn't by itself mean that it shouldn't be running._ -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
