Sudo killall erlang

Please STOP, too many erlang articles at the moment. This post will also be killed, and so be it.

Sudo killall erlang
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Xach's metaphor is apt: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776376

While your immune system is fighting an infection, you get all kinds of additional symptoms like fever or inflammation that are caused by the immune system itself. You may not like them, but you wouldn't like the alternative.