There are a number of useful commands for dealing with processes. One of them is called top. This command lists, in an continually-updated way, the processes running on the system and has an inbuilt facility to a kill a particular process. However, I prefer using the command ps, in the following way:
ps -auxww | less
Then the kill command can be used, sometimes with option 9 if a process is a particularly reluctant quitter, as in:
kill -9 2099
This kills process number 2099. The -9 bit means that the operating system doesn’t bother to give the process any ability at all to close on its own accord.
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