A Linux system is running normally when the systems administrator receives an alert that one application spawned many processes. The application is consuming a lot of memory, and it will soon cause the machine to become unresponsive. Which of the following commands will stop each application process?
A) kill 'pidof application'
B) killall application
C) kill -9 'ps -aux | grep application'
D) pkill -9 application

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The `killall` command is used to terminate all processes with the specified name, effectively stopping each process of the application.

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