A Linux System Is Running Normally When the Systems Administrator

question 142

Multiple Choice

A Linux system is running normally when the systems administrator receives an alert that one application spawned many processes. The application is consuming a lot of memory, and it will soon cause the machine to become unresponsive. Which of the following commands will stop each application process?

• A) kill 'pidof application'
• B) killall application
• C) kill -9 'ps -aux | grep application'
• D) pkill -9 application

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