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.