😵‍💫 PSycho KILLer

PSycho KILLer is an interactive process manager and system resource monitor that combines the functionalities of ps and kill.

Features

• "Seek & Destroy" - Quickly find and terminate processes in an interactive manner.
• If a process still remains alive, kill it with sudo privileges and stronger signals.
• Monitor usage of system resources:
  • Memory usage, including Dirty and Writeback memory to keep an eye on ongoing copying
  • CPU usage
  • Disk space usage
  • Disk IO utliziation
  • Network transfer
  • Temperatures
• Group processes by executable path and show aggregated stats, e.g. total memory usage of a multiprocess application

Installation

Cargo

cargo install psycho-killer

This will install latest version of psycho binary in Rust's Path.

Binary

Alternatively, you can download the compiled binary:

curl -L https://github.com/igrek51/psycho-killer/releases/download/0.6.4/psycho -o ~/bin/psycho
chmod +x ~/bin/psycho

Usage

Launch the interactive process manager by running psycho.

Enter the phrase of a process you want to kill.

Choose the preferred method to terminate the process:

• Interrupt with SIGINT signal
• Gracefully terminate the process with SIGTERM
• Forcefully kill the process with SIGKILL signal
• Terminate the process with SIGTERM signal as Superuser
• Forcefully kill the process with SIGKILL signal as Superuser

Keyboard controls

• ? to show help.
• Ctrl+F or F to filter processes.
• Arrows ↑ and ↓ to navigate list.
• F5 or R to refresh list.
• S to sort.
• M to order by memory usage.
• C to order by CPU usage.
• U to order by uptime.
• G group processes by executable path.
• Enter to select or confirm.
• Tab to switch tab.
• Esc to cancel or quit.