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Possibly recover from a freeze without a reboot
I have used ssh to get into a frozen mac but often you do not have to do a reboot. If you run the unix command "top" you can see which applications are running. If one is causing the freeze-up it will often show a huge cpu usage. Killing that process will often free up the computer.
Here are the commands:
Possibly recover from a freeze without a reboot
Most people won't need to get the pid's, but can just use killall. For example to kill the Finder, do
This could cause trouble on a multi user machine, so be careful if other people are logged in. On the other hand if your desktop is frozen, odds are all other processes are frozen too...
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