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Shell: Terminating Long-Running Processes


I’m sure everyone has had the experience of a server process that was created by some developer and continues to run indefinitely without ending. This script comes in handy in such situations. When you schedule it to run regularly with tools like crontab, it will terminate these seemingly never-ending processes for you. It’s similar to scripts like Terminating Excessive Apache (httpd) Child Processes and Listing Process Execution Directories.

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Windows: delete folder fast


When we try to remove a folder in Windows, sometimes we must wait too much. It is because Windows OS calculates time for deleting by checking all the files in the folder. Especially, deleting big folder makes the computer as if it is frozen.

Here, I introduce how to delete such folders fast.

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