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RHEL + kill -9 not really killing the process

We have around 85 running process with lshw Since these process increased the CPU load average , We tryed to kill them with kill -9 but without success root 3275 0.0 0.0 131720 8992 ? D ...
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How to kill one tab of google chrome using pid

I want to close one tab of chrome. I tried killing the pid of the tab, but the tab doesn't close instead says "Aw, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, reload or go ...
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autossh creating many processes

I'm using autossh to connect to a reverse SSH tunnel. I run it from startup. However, I was facing problems in that the tunnel sometimes goes down. I created a script which checks if the tunnel is ...
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Restart process on linux by its pidn number with kill command, how?

Well, I want to be able to restart processes on linux and so I looked into kill manpages for that. Apparently kill -l would list all the signals I could send to a process to do what I need, which are:...
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How can I find the PID for software where the name of the software is different from the executable?

I run "Videos" software from the Dash in Ubuntu. After some minutes the software freezes. I've tried searching for the PID of the software to kill it, but I can't find any result with these commands: ...
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Kill all tasks with PID above a certain integer with bash

How may I fetch and kill all processes with a PID above e.g 1000? Using commands like ps -A and top is fine for viewing the list of processes, but how would one only get the PIDs? The logic of ...
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After forced quit, “killall Finder” says “No matching processes…” but PID still exists?

Here's one for ya. Upon a forced quit of the Finder with unsuccessful relaunch, "killall Finder" in terminal returns: "No matching processes belonging to you were found" Oddly enough, the PID for ...
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Loop: Start program and kill after time out

for debugging reasons I want to spot one of those bugs showing up just occasionally. Therefore I want to code a while loop in the shell starting the program (if it will segfault => that's what I want)...