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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Size of the X server process growing uncontrollably!
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Date: 23 Feb 90 17:17:23 GMT
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In article <8594@shlump.nac.dec.com> michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) writes:
>> >>   kill -KILL `ps -aux | grep Xq | grep -v grep | colrm 15 | colrm 1 9`
>> >
>> >	(I also prefer using awk '{print $1}' instead of the colrm's, but

>> 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" :-))).

Ack.  Touche'.  My only excuse is "cruft."  You need the -u in order
to see that the X server has bloated, though not to kill it.  That
one-liner, of course, was built up from the command used to see
the problem.

				--Blair
				  "I go fix."