Thanks everyone this worked out great (why isn't there a ref to killall 
in the kill man page????).

Carl P.

foodog wrote:

> Sooo close :) try
> # killall java_vm
> 
> or: killall -<whatever signal> progname
> 
> I find myself using 'killall -9 netscape-communicator' pretty regularly
> Steve
> 
> Carl Parrish wrote:
> 
>>Okay is there any way to kill a process by name? Since I've update to RH
>>  7.2 I been noticing that I had problems with mozilla or other apps.
>>Today I finally thought to check for java_vm processes. there are
>>*hundres* of them they aren't dying I don't know if that's just because
>>I have so much memory the garbage collector simply isn't clearing them
>>or what but I want them dead and I don't wont to have to type in ever
>>process number. is there a way I can just say kill all java_vm processes?
>>
>>Carl P.
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