This tag refers to the action of terminating (aborting) a process.
Use this tag for questions related to killing a specific process on a system.
Questions tagged [kill-process]
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How to kill a process running on particular port in Linux?
I tried to close the tomcat using ./shutdown.sh from tomcat /bin directory. But found that the server was not closed properly. And thus I was unable to restartMy tomcat is running on port 8080.
I want to kill the tomcat process running on 8080. I…
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How to terminate a python subprocess launched with shell=True
I'm launching a subprocess with the following command:
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
However, when I try to kill using:
p.terminate()
or
p.kill()
The command keeps running in the background, so I was wondering how…
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Kill some processes by .exe file name
How can I kill some active processes by searching for their .exe filenames in C# .NET or C++?
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Kill a Process by Looking up the Port being used by it from a .BAT
In Windows what can look for port 8080 and try to kill the process it is using through a .BAT file?
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How to find MySQL process list and to kill those processes?
The MySQL database hangs, due to some queries.
How can I find the processes and kill them?
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Closing Excel Application Process in C# after Data Access
I'm writing an application in C# that opens an Excel template file for read/write operations. I want to when user closes the application, excel application process has been closed, without saving excel file. See my Task Manager after multiple runs…
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what does anon-rss and total-vm mean
Recently, tomcat process on my Linux machine was killed abruptly. After investigation I found below error message in /var/log/messages file:
kernel: [1799319.246494] Out of memory: Kill process 28536 (java) score 673 or sacrifice childSep
kernel:…
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How to stop 'uninterruptible' process on Linux?
I have a VirtualBox process hanging around which I tried to kill (KILL/ABORT) but without success. The parent pid is 1 (init).
top shows the process as D which is documented as "uninterruptible sleep".
strace shows up nothing.
How can I get rid of…
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Does the Android OS release a wakelock if the app or service holding it is killed?
I have question about wakelock. In cases shown below, does android OS release wakelock (PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK if you need to specify) to prevent wakelock was left acquired and wasting battery until turning power off (not sleep).
Case 1-a:
App has…
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linux script to kill java process
I want linux script to kill java program running on console.
Following is the process running as jar.
[rapp@s1-dlap0 ~]$ ps -ef |grep java
rapp 9473 1 0 15:03 pts/1 00:00:15 java -jar…
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How to kill all processes with the same name using OS X Terminal
Getting the following output from running this:
ps aux | grep Python
Output:
user_name 84487 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 12:15PM 0:00.00 (Python)
user_name 84535 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 12:16PM 0:00.00 (Python)
I want…
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Kill process tree programmatically in C#
I am starting Internet Explorer programmatically with code that looks like this:
ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("iexplore.exe");
startInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
startInfo.Arguments =…
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subprocess: deleting child processes in Windows
On Windows, subprocess.Popen.terminate calls win32's TerminalProcess. However, the behavior I see is that child processes of the process I am trying to terminate are still running. Why is that? How do I ensure all child processes started by the…
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How do task killers work?
The usefullness of task killer apps is debated, but I'm wondering: how do they actually work? How is it possible to kill particular process?
Is there an API for this, and if so what does it actually do?
EDIT
Worth adding: I saw task killer apps…
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Kill tomcat service running on any port, Windows
Kill tomcat service running on any port, Windows
using command promt like 8080/ 8005
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