-bash process suddenly taking 75% CPU in htop When I open a terminal and run htop I am seeing a -bash process that is taking up 75% of my CPU. I am not running any scripts or anything like that. I constantly have 3-4 terminals open and I have never seen this happen before. I tried to kill the process but it doesn't go away. 

What should I try next?
Most run-away processes can be killed with kill -9 PID. Any unsaved data kept by the process will be lost.