Windows task manager vs ps
Posted By matt on February 2, 2010
So, I was fiddling with java stuff at work the other day, and was struck by just how useless windows task manager is.
When running several:
java -jar something.jar
GNU ps actually shows which is which, because it includes the name of the jar file.
Windows just shows javaw.exe for all of them, so you don’t know what you’re killing.
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i love it when you try and eject a usb drive and windows says “an application is using this device”
well, WHAT ONE?
Ubuntu has gotten really good at that (at least from the command line). It basically says something like:
unmount failed, device in use. To see what is using it, try “lsof /media/cdrom”
Same thing, when you mistype a command, you get:
Kill them all. Will not Gates know his own?
–H