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2. Go to Advanced Section and Locate “Terminal” <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n NOTE: If you cannot locate this feature, reach out to support and request for terminal to be enabled on your cpanel. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Lists all running processes by typing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Output<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To kill All processes associated with Python, type the command below.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n To kill All processes associated with Nodejs, type the command below. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n When you run the Explanation. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This command does the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also create a cronjob on cpanel to do the same for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Below is a sample to run every 10 minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At times, you may try accessing your python app or nodejs app and you get an error 503. Checking on cpanel, you notice that you have reached the processes limit. Thus, you may need to kill these processes for your app to continue working. Here are the steps. 1. Login to cpanel. 2. Go to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1822],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-13944","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-cpanel"],"year_month":"2026-06","word_count":242,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"Kibera","author_nicename":"dan-k","author_url":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/author\/dan-k\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Cpanel","term_url":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/docs-category\/cpanel\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-31-1024x298.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nps faux <\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/processes-1024x371.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nkill -9 $(ps faux | grep python | grep -v grep | awk {'print $2'})<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nkill -9 $(ps faux | grep node | grep -v grep | awk {'print $2'})<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-32-1024x244.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nps faux<\/code> again, you will notice that we no longer have the node and python processes running. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
ps faux<\/code>: Lists all running processes.<\/li>\n\n\n\ngrep python<\/code>\/node<\/code>: Filters for processes that include “python” or “node”. <\/li>\n\n\n\ngrep -v grep<\/code>: Excludes the grep<\/code> process itself from the results.<\/li>\n\n\n\nawk {'print $2'}<\/code>: Extracts the process IDs (PIDs) from the list.<\/li>\n\n\n\nkill -9 $(...)<\/code>: Forcefully terminates the processes by their PIDs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n*\/10 * * * * kill -9 $(ps faux | grep python | grep -v grep | awk {'print $2'})<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"