How to Kill a Hung Process

Shoshana Billik

June 22, 2021 21:21
Updated

Introduction

There may be times when you need to kill off a hung process. This article can help you determine whether the process has truly hung.

Procedure

Command-line

Find the process ID of the process--for example, if you are looking for rsync processes:
```
ps -elfwww | grep rsync
```
The output looks like this:
```
4 S root      3589  3586  0  97  17 - 40955 poll_s Sep08 ?        00:00:04 /usr/local/jetapps/usr/bin/rsync
```
The process ID is the fourth field from the left; in this example, it is 3589.
Kill the process:
```
kill 3589
```

From WHM

Go to Home » System Health » Process Manager.
Find the process ID for the hung process in the first column on the left.
Click on the (Kill) link to the right of the process ID.