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
- 1. Find the process ID of the process--for example, if you are looking for
rsync
processes: -
ps -elfwww | grep rsync
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2. The output looks like this:
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4 S root 3589 3586 0 97 17 - 40955 poll_s Sep08 ? 00:00:04 /usr/local/jetapps/usr/bin/rsync
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3. The process ID is the fourth field from the left; in this example, it is 3589.
- 4. Kill the process:
-
kill 3589
From WHM
- 1. Go to Home » System Health » Process Manager.
- 2. Find the process ID for the hung process in the first column on the left.
- 3. Click on the
(Kill)
link to the right of the process ID.
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