[CentOS] out of memory
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Thu Jul 31 22:21:41 UTC 2008
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, nate wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I have some users who despite my occasional begging to get
>> them to shut down or at least log off, simply don't.
>
> While it can be done with grep I like the slay command, I don't
> think it's available in RHEL
>
> NAME
> slay - kill all processes belonging to a user
CentOS includes pkill (in the procps rpm), which performs the same
function:
pkill -U username
or, more severely,
pkill -KILL -U username
That's what I use to get rid of open filehandles, esp. on NFS mounts,
before shutting down shared servers.
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