How to kill a process in cygwin?
The process is locked from Windows most likely. The error you are getting “couldnt open PID XXX” points to this. To confirm try killing it with windows taskkill taskkill /PID 4760
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What happens if you kill a long-running alter query?
It depends what you’re doing. If you’re running an alter table…add index command on an InnoDB table (not so sure about MyISAM), then it will just run and run as it copies the whole darn table lock-stock-and-barrel first: if it’s in the middle of “copy to temp table” then it’s pretty much unstoppable. See here: … Read more
“Gracefully” killing a process
If the process has a windows interface (as you refer to the red “X”), you can try Process.CloseMainWindow(). If it fails, you can fallback to Process.Kill().
Emacs: How to yank the last yanked text regardless of subsequent kills?
Don’t use the kill ring; put the text into a register instead. C-x r s a to store the region’s text into (say) register “a”; then C-x r i a to insert it elsewhere.
Kill process after a given time bash?
There’s a GNU coreutils utility called timeout: http://www.gnu.org/s/coreutils/manual/html_node/timeout-invocation.html If you have it on your platform, you could do: timeout 5 CONNECT_TO_DB if [ $? -eq 124 ]; then # Timeout occurred else # No hang fi
How do I kill an Activity when the Back button is pressed?
Simple Override onBackPressed Method: @Override public void onBackPressed() { super.onBackPressed(); this.finish(); }
How to kill a nohup process?
kill -0 does not kill the process. It just checks if you could send a signal to it. Simply kill pid, and if that doesn’t work, try kill -9 pid.
How to kill process inside container? Docker top command
When I reproduce your situation I see different PIDs between docker top <container> and docker exec -it <container> ps -aux. When you do docker exec the command is executed inside the container => should use container’s pid. Otherwise you could do the kill without docker straight from the host, in your case: sudo kill -9 … Read more
Kill process by name?
psutil can find process by name and kill it: import psutil PROCNAME = “python.exe” for proc in psutil.process_iter(): # check whether the process name matches if proc.name() == PROCNAME: proc.kill()