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I have started a program in parallel using the command:

    nohup mpirun -7 mylongprogram.py &

I now want to terminate the program. When I want to kill the process by the command:

    kill -9 <PID>

I see that another process with a different PID is started. How do I kill the entire mpi program and prevent nohup from doing this?

gora
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    Questions about usage of general Unix tools like `nohup` should be asked on the [Super User site](http://superuser.com/). –  Oct 21 '13 at 08:45
  • "prevent nohup from doing this". From doing what ? – Slyx Dec 29 '15 at 09:52

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The command I usually do this is to use:

killall -u [USER]
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  • Or, if you feel daring, `kill -15 -1` as your non-root mpi-user (which logs you out, too). – Ned64 Mar 28 '18 at 19:53
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killall mpirun

or more specifically for your case :

ps -ef | grep mpirun | grep mylongprogram | awk '{print $2}' | while read p; do kill -9 $p ; done

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Instead of forcing the program to shut down from the outside, I'd try triggering a clean exit from inside. For example, create a file somewhere that the program periodically checks if it exists, and shuts itself down if it does (related reading: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5433697/terminating-all-processes-with-mpi).

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