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Reboot a hung system with Spotlight and Terminal
Authored by: frgough on Dec 30, '08 08:50:37AM

With the terminal open, type top and press enter. Look for the program you want to quit and note its PID. Then type q to quit TOP, and enter sudo kill -9 xxx where xxx is the PID of the program you want to kill. Enter your password when prompted. The program should die, and hopefully free your hung machine.



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