Programmer's Killswitch

Have this running while you use Xcode. If it starts driving the system into paging hell, press ctrl-⌘-X.

Download it from this page.

Currently, the Killswitch will kill these processes:

• Xcode
• Instruments

And not yet these, but someday:

• gdb
• lldb

The kill in question is SIGKILL, the famous “kill -9”.

How-to's

How do I change the hotkey?

Change the source code.

How do I quit the Killswitch?

Activity Monitor.