How to Kill a Known Application in Linux To begin, let's open a software application and then, in the terminal, use the killall command to kill the application.

$ kill -9 <Parent PID> Note that killing a parent process will affect all of its child processes, so a quick double check will be helpful to be safe. Alternatively, if few lying zombie processes are ...

Let's look at some useful commands that'll help you keep tabs on your CPU and memory utilization in Linux.