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Shane Turner (turner@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:

: There are limits on process sizes to prevent such problems becoming too
: major.  You also have to look at the probablility of what you have said.
: The worst that would *probably* happen in the event of a runaway background
: process is:
: 	ps -fu username
: 	/* look for the messy process and it's PID */
: 	kill -9 <pid>	# stomp on it

I know how to find and kill runaway processes, and so do you.
But how many 1st year students know how to get a process list, let alone
realise that they have runaway processes that possibly exist after you
disconnect.  It's just been my experience that people in their first (and
even second) year CS students aren't very well versed in UNIX commands.

In fact, I just asked a second year CS student if he knew how to get a process
list and kill jobs....and he didn't.

Lawrence

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