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- kill processes by name
- `killall -9 firefox`
- Sometime process exists and cannot be killed due to:
- - being zombie. I.e. process which parent did not read the exit status. Such process does not consume any resources except PID entry. In `top` it is signaled Z
- - erroneous uninterruptible sleep. It should not happen but with a combination of buggy kernel code and/or buggy hardware it sometime does. The only method is to reboot or wait. In `top` it is signaled by D.
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