kill process with htop

Sometimes I need to kill a process and for that purpose I enter htop, search (/) for some string and then intend to kill the associated process.

The problem is that usually the processes are in motion (due to new processes being added and attributes changing) - so by the time I pressed F9 and went on with "killing" the process the selected process is already a different one.

Is there a way to handle this?

The reason why I use htop is of course b/c I sometimes have to guess which is the right process to get rid of and just a string is not sufficient for identification.

After executing sudo htop, just use the arrow keys to select the process you want to remove and then press either F9 or k then select which signal you want to send in the list (using the arrow keys) and press enter.

If you just to ask "politely" a process to quit use 3 SIGQUIT.

If you want to make sure the process quits use 9 SIGKILL.

It is possible to tag (and untag) a process with [space]. To the tagged process(es) the kill signal will be sent.

use htop and note down the PID of the process. Exit by entering q

then enter the command :

kill PID

If it is owned by the root, then :

sudo kill PID

Hope this'll help you ....