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Sometimes I want to be able to quickly kill the process that has the most intensive hard disk usage. How do I do it?

With the solutions described here I would have to open another terminal to invoke a kill. Is there a way to monitor and potentially kill with the same app?

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  • What flavor of unix? – thrig Feb 08 '17 at 18:20
  • @thrig I'm using Debian – Sparkler Feb 08 '17 at 18:32
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    @StephenC it doesn't say there how I kill it. With the solutions there I would have to open another terminal to invoke a kill. Is there a way to monitor and potentially kill with the same app? – Sparkler Feb 08 '17 at 22:40
  • @Sparkler The Unix philosophy relies heavily on the idea of many applications that do one thing and do it really well. I personally don't know of an all-in-one application that would do that (that doesn't mean it doesn't exist). The way I would do it would be to sudo iotop -P. The leftmost column will show the process ID (PID). Once you know the PID of the process you want to kill, use kill <PID>. But I would use it with great caution. – Stephen C Feb 09 '17 at 00:43
  • What about the work carried out by that process? You don't care that you my lose something? – Kusalananda Feb 09 '17 at 12:08
  • @Kusalananda sometimes you don't have a choice. Sometimes it's so intense the system is barely responding. – Sparkler Feb 09 '17 at 12:49

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