How to terminate a running process

This article describes how to terminate a running or non-responsive process under your shell account.

1)  Please login to your shell account.

2)  To determine the PID of the running or non-responsive process, type the following: 
ps ux

3)  Review the output from the process tool to determine which process and PID must be terminated.

4)  After determining the process PID, kill the process by typing the following:  kill -9 [PID]

 

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