kill -9 PID

Category: VPS Management

kill -9 PID

Forcefully terminate a process by PID when normal kill doesn't work

SIGKILL (-9) immediately terminates the process without giving it a chance to clean up. Use as a last resort — the process cannot ignore this signal. Find the PID with 'ps aux' or 'pgrep processname'.
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