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Someone setup a server and has FFMPEG is trying to encode a video and it has effectively killed the web server. I didn’t set it up but have sudo access and need to kill FFMPEG so that the web server starts responding again. How can I do this? Thank you!
It is an Ubuntu 11.10 server with a standard LAMP stack.
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On Linux, you can use sudo killall ffmpeg to kill every process called “ffmpeg” or ps -ef | grep ffmpeg to get the process ids and then sudo kill <PID> to kill each one individually.
If they don’t die, sudo kill -9 <PID> will terminate them.
If you don’t want to kill ffmpeg, you can pause a running process with sudo kill -s SIGSTOP <PID> and start them again with sudo kill -s SIGCONT <PID>.
Beware: On Solaris, killall doesn’t take arguments. It just kills everything.
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