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cymplecy 07-26-2012 01:17 PM
Kill process(es) of a running script
 
I've created a script
Code:
#!/bin/bash
sudo python scratch_gpio_handler.py
that runs a python program to handle traffic between Scratch and the GPIO pins on a RaspberryPi.

This program consumes a lot of CPU (as its just sits in a loop awaiting changes) and I'd like to kill it when I finished.

Looking at ps aux I've got these 3 lines

/bin/bash ./sgh (the name of the script file)
sudo python scratch_gpio_handler.py
python scratch_gpio_handler.py

My question is do I have to kill all three or can I get away with just killing the last one?

regards
Simon

Kustom42 07-26-2012 02:21 PM
You can kill the first one and it should reap the child processes along with it.

cymplecy 07-31-2012 11:10 AM
Killing the first one only doesn't seem to work for me - the others seem to stay running.

Killing the last one seems to remove all of them but I can't work out the syntax to supply to pkill

Code:
sudo pkill python
works but I wouldn't want to use it in case there are other python programs running.

Any suggestions please?

regards
Simon

Kustom42 08-01-2012 11:38 AM
You will need to find the parent process and kill that, it will then reap the child processes. The .sh process is usually the parent process.

A ps aux | grep python will give you the process numbers as well as the PPID(parent process ID). You can then check that PPID and kill it.

cymplecy 08-02-2012 03:42 AM
As I said, killing the bin/bash process doesn't seem to kill the other two for me.

But killing the python scratch_gpio_handler.py process does seem to kill all the others as well.

But my problem now is that I can't work out the syntax to kill that one :(


Simon

jsaravana87 08-02-2012 05:02 AM
you Can try these


Quote:
ps aux | grep python | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9

Kustom42 08-02-2012 11:31 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by arun5002 (Post 4743933)
you Can try these
Be careful with that, we should explain that this will send a kill signal of 9 to any running process that has python in the name. Remove the xargs portion and run the command to see what it will kill before actually executing it. Just a heads up.

cymplecy 08-02-2012 03:56 PM
Code:
sudo ps aux | grep "python scratch_gpio_handler.py" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo kill -9
Seems to do the job :)

Thanks for the help people :)

Simon

Kustom42 08-03-2012 01:53 PM
Good code cymplecy, you are limiting your grep to a specific process that way instead of killing all python processes. The one killing all python could do something like kill yum during a transaction and bork your rpmdb as well as yum.


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