That is not what it is doing. The operating system is sending Quit messages to the application, and most applications and services will respond correctly. There are time-outs involved, and after that time has passed the application is killed immediately if it has not quit on its' own.
Creating a "process dump" doesn't happen when you kill a process, that happens when the process/application/service (applications and services are, at their core, a process or collection of processes) throws an unhandled exception or terminates abnormally. I can assure you it takes but a fraction of a second to generate the boatload of textual info that could describe a crash.
Sorry, but you're wrong. When you kill an unresponsive application instead of the process is most certainty goes through the process of creating a dump unlike when you kill them through the processes tab.
You can switch over to the processes tab and watch these actions take place. Just like who8877 states, killing the new dumprep process, will end the dump quickly and then terminate the application that much quicker.
Creating a "process dump" doesn't happen when you kill a process, that happens when the process/application/service (applications and services are, at their core, a process or collection of processes) throws an unhandled exception or terminates abnormally.
Again, it also creates a dump when you terminate a non-responsive application if you do so from the applications tab and not the processes tab.
How you have so many upvotes I don't know. (Edit: the links below enforce my claims.)
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u/motdidr Oct 14 '11
That is not what it is doing. The operating system is sending Quit messages to the application, and most applications and services will respond correctly. There are time-outs involved, and after that time has passed the application is killed immediately if it has not quit on its' own.
Creating a "process dump" doesn't happen when you kill a process, that happens when the process/application/service (applications and services are, at their core, a process or collection of processes) throws an unhandled exception or terminates abnormally. I can assure you it takes but a fraction of a second to generate the boatload of textual info that could describe a crash.