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From: michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud)
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Subject: Re: Size of the X server process growing uncontrollably!
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Date: 23 Feb 90 02:35:23 GMT
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> >>   kill -KILL `ps -aux | grep Xq | grep -v grep | colrm 15 | colrm 1 9`
> >
> >	If you're on a DECstation, you don't want to use Xq, but probably just
> >	X (Xmfb and Xcfb are the names of the servers for mono and color
respectively
> >	on the DECstation).
> >
> >	(I also prefer using awk '{print $1}' instead of the colrm's, but
> >	that's just me :-)
> Ac-shully, you might want to use:  awk '{print $2}'.

	Ac-shully I missed the "u" option you gave to ps.  Why bother
	having ps waste time doing getpwuid's, just use "ps ax" :-))).

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