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Chopin
Asked: 2020-01-23 06:53:29 +0800 CST

How to DEFINITELY stop Node

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I am running out of memory on my computer and this is the output of "top":

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Node is taking all my memory.

So I tried the following command several times:

sudo pkill -f node

Nothing change, when I try to stop it by the ID, it says that the ID doesn't exist, in deed the ID is changing every second. I don't know what is running in the background and I don't know how to stop it. Do you have an idea?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: The problem has been solved! Thanks to Terrance! I needed to run "top -c" to see what precise process caused the problem, it was "wekan" so I stopped the process: "systemctl stop snap.wekan.wekan"

memory-usage ram nodejs 19.10

1 Answers

  1. sudo kill -9 30813

    where 30813 is the process ID (PID) from your screenshot.

    Note that it's probably not really "node" per se that you want to stop, but a node application that you are running.

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