There is a number way of killing processes on a Linux based OS, killall is one of these methods. It’s always good to be ready to kill an unwanted process or a rogue process which is eating resources.

Usage

Kill all instances of the “httpd” process

Kill all proccesses running under the user “postfix”

Kill a specific process but its full path

This package also contains the following useful programs:

• fuser – identifies what processes are using files.
• killall – kills a process by its name, similar to a pkill Unices.
• pstree – Shows currently running processes in a tree format.
• peekfd – Peek at file descriptors of running processes.