{"id":24309,"date":"2017-11-30T06:55:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T12:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/?p=24309"},"modified":"2022-06-03T03:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T08:41:51","slug":"how-to-kill-a-process-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-kill-a-process-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Kill a Process in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24395 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/How-to-Kill-a-Process-in-Linux.jpg\" alt=\"How to Kill a Process in Linux\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/How-to-Kill-a-Process-in-Linux.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/How-to-Kill-a-Process-in-Linux-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/How-to-Kill-a-Process-in-Linux-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/How-to-Kill-a-Process-in-Linux-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/How-to-Kill-a-Process-in-Linux-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/How-to-Kill-a-Process-in-Linux-860x430.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/How-to-Kill-a-Process-in-Linux-680x340.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/How-to-Kill-a-Process-in-Linux-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/How-to-Kill-a-Process-in-Linux-400x200.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/How-to-Kill-a-Process-in-Linux-200x100.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/How-to-Kill-a-Process-in-Linux-50x25.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll show you How to kill a process in Linux . One of the major advantages of Linux is the ability to terminate a process without having to reboot your server. In this tutorial, we will show you how to kill a process in Linux using the kill, pkill and killall commands.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662f6d3c767a0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"ez-toc-cssicon\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662f6d3c767a0\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-kill-a-process-in-linux\/#1-What-is-PID\" title=\"1. What is PID\">1. What is PID<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-kill-a-process-in-linux\/#2-Kill-a-process-with-the-kill-command-in-Linux\" title=\"2. Kill a process with the kill command in Linux\">2. Kill a process with the kill command in Linux<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-kill-a-process-in-linux\/#3-Kill-a-process-with-the-pkill-command-in-Linux\" title=\"3. Kill a process with the pkill command\u00a0in Linux\">3. Kill a process with the pkill command\u00a0in Linux<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-kill-a-process-in-linux\/#4-Kill-a-process-with-the-killall-command-in-Linux\" title=\"4. Kill a process with the killall command\u00a0in Linux\">4. Kill a process with the killall command\u00a0in Linux<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1-What-is-PID\"><\/span>1. What is PID<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Before we begin, we will need to know what is a Process ID (PID).<\/p>\n<p>PID represents a numeric identification of a process in Linux. Each process has a unique PID.\u00a0 For, example the first process that starts in a Linux based system is the init process and his PID is set to &#8221; 1 &#8220;. This process is a parent of all other processes. The init process cannot be killed using the kill commands and this ensures that it is not accidentally killed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in order to find the PID of every running process on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">server<\/a> we can execute the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>ps -A<\/pre>\n<p>This gives us a list of all running process and their respective PIDs.<\/p>\n<p>If we want to find the PID of a specific process instead, we can use the pidof command followed by the name of the process. For example, to find out the PID of our mysql process, we can run the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>pidof mysql<\/pre>\n<p>For even more detailed information we can use the <strong>ps aux<\/strong> command together with <strong>grep<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre>ps aux | grep mysql<\/pre>\n<p>Now, that we know what PID is and how to find the PID of a specific process we can move on to the next section and learn how to kill it.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2-Kill-a-process-with-the-kill-command-in-Linux\"><\/span>2. Kill a process with the kill command in Linux<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There are few important rules that we need to know before start using the kill command.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can only kill your own processes which are owned by your userid<\/li>\n<li>You can not kill other user&#8217;s processes<\/li>\n<li>You can not kill system processes (unless you are the root user)<\/li>\n<li>The root user can kill the process of any other user and any system process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When we kill a process with the kill command, we actually send a specific signal to the PID that we want to kill. The following signals are used by the kill command:<\/p>\n<pre>1 = Hung up\r\n9 = Kill \r\n15 = Terminate<\/pre>\n<p>The hung up signal is rarely used. Most often we use the kill signal and if it doesn&#8217;t work then we can use the terminate signal.<\/p>\n<p>So once we find the PID of the process we want to kill, using one of the methods we described before, we can use the <strong>kill -9 PID<\/strong> command to kill the process with that specific PID.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if the PID is 6738, then we can use the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>kill -9 6738<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3-Kill-a-process-with-the-pkill-command-in-Linux\"><\/span>3. Kill a process with the pkill command\u00a0in Linux<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you want to use the name of the process instead of its PID to kill it, then you can use the pkill command. For example, if the process we want to kill is named mysql, then we can use the following command to kill it:<\/p>\n<pre>pkill mysql<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4-Kill-a-process-with-the-killall-command-in-Linux\"><\/span>4. Kill a process with the killall command\u00a0in Linux<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The previous two commands are used to kill only one specific process. But, if we want to kill a process along with all of his child processes we can use the <strong>killall<\/strong> command:<\/p>\n<pre>killall mysql<\/pre>\n<p>In this example, we will kill the mysql process and all its child processes.<\/p>\n<p>These are the most common examples of killing a process in Linux.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">See Also \u2013 How to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/find-large-files-linux\/\">Find Large Files in Linux<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Of course, you don\u2019t have to terminate process in Linux,\u00a0 if you use one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/rosehosting.com\/managed-vps-hosting.html\">VPS Hosting<\/a> services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to help you. They are available 24\u00d77 and will take care of your request immediately.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PS<\/strong>.<\/span> If you liked this post on\u00a0how to kill a process in Linux, please share it with your friends on the social networks using the buttons on the left or simply leave a reply below. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll show you How to kill a process in Linux . 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