hello. every now and then some browser instance goes resource wild. top(1) or ps(1) show the PID consuming all the resources (normally a webkit instance), but i haven't figured out a way to go from that to knowing which instance to kill off, given that most often i start surf from dwm(1), which starts surf on a generic search engine page, and then i go from there. is there an obvious method for correlating a PID to an actual instance?
if not, two questions/suggestions: 1. would it make sense to have some key combination in surf(1) that would show *its* PID (in the status bar or somewhere)? (and, possibly less palatable, maybe a key for tabbed(1) to list its cilents along with their PIDs?) 2. i'm using the new webkit2gtk surf, and i notice that the spawned webkit processes don't have the surf instance as their parent; e.g., "ps axo pid,ppid,command" shows: ---- 32676 32672 tabbed -c -r2 surf -e x -z1.3 -a @a duckduckgo.com 32677 32676 surf -e 46137347 -z1.3 -a @a duckduckgo.com 32688 1 /usr/local/libexec/webkit2gtk-4.0/WebKitNetworkProcess 18 32691 1 /usr/local/libexec/webkit2gtk-4.0/WebKitWebProcess 21 ---- rather, they are children of process 1. does anyone know why that is? cheers, Greg Minshall
