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Yes, but it's hard to remember, and it depends on Sysrq being enabled. I think the Ctrl+Alt+Del thing makes sense. Since everyone is adopting Systemd, maybe at
by iso8859-1 12y ago
Yes, but it's hard to remember, and it depends on Sysrq being enabled. I think the Ctrl+Alt+Del thing makes sense. Since everyone is adopting Systemd, maybe at least it will be ubiquitous. :P
It does have one advantage: You don't have to press all keys. If you system is just locked up cause it's swapping like crazy, it usually gets usable after the e (terminate all tasks).
- feld 12y agowell if you don't mind altering the order a bit (syncing to disk before all the apps get SIGTERM or SIGKILL) you can use this mnemonic: Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring That's how I remembered it for years
- iso8859-1 12y agoI always just remembered "busier" backwards. I think it's better, cause it makes more sense to sync after killing.