200 to 300word response that discusses the different reasons

200- to 300-word response that discusses the different reasons for terminating a process and the commands used for this purpose

Solution

Some of the reasons to terminate a process include high CPU usage, high memory usage or sometimes its process stops responding either due to waiting too long for resource or there are some virus in system which cause the process to stop then we need to terminate or kill a process forcefully.

Some of the commands used to kill the process are

1) killall

Syntax $ killall processName

2) in case we want to ignore case of file name

$ killall -I processName

3) We can terminate the process by sending some signals

$ killall -s SIGINT processName