I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say. If you're looking for a shortcut to kill locked jobs, there's a cute little skull and crossbones link on your desktop that you can use to kill dead or stuck windows should that occur (rare). Otherwise, you can kill a job in console. To find a job's pid, type: ps aux | grep JOBNAMEHERE Then: kill PIDNUMBER HERE On those rare times that something does lock up (Hello, wine), that's how I kill it and I'm good to go again. Otherwise, if you're hard drive is thrashing about and you run out of resources somehow independent of ANY OS or situation, you might have faulty or inadequate hardware. There are also a variety of cute little GUI tools to monitor your system resources in Linux. Note that Linux does not utilize memory and the like quite the same as Windows. So, don't panic if a lot of your memory is being used. That's a good thing. --- David Martland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK - so I can get almost any OS to hang! With > Windows NT and MacOS, I > usually have to hit > CTRL-ALT DEL or the RESET button. I think Linux > perhaps doesn't > technically crash, but it > seems to become unusable if some programs are run. I > suspect that what > happens is that several > programs get run, which use up system resouces, and > eventually there are > no, or very few, > resources left. This probably results in some form > of thrashing, > probably involving the disk, and then > progress is very slow. Of course, things will > eventually clear, but who > can wait that long? > > I find it amazing that there is no short cut way to > regain control of > the machine once this > sort of behaviour sets in. So far I see no reason to > believe that Linux > is a major threat to other > computer systems - for which I am rather sorry, as I > don't like many of > the competitor products. > > Some of the programs I have on my Linux machine are > quite ingenious, and > well worth tryingd > Maybe next century someone will produce an operating > system which will > be worth having! > > David Martland > Mitth�gskolan > 851 70 Sundsvall > Sweden > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
