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# ---- Sending signals with kill ----

# Gracefully terminate a process (SIGTERM = 15)
kill 1234
kill -15 1234
kill -SIGTERM 1234

# Force kill (SIGKILL = 9) — cannot be caught or ignored
kill -9 1234
kill -SIGKILL 1234

# Reload configuration (SIGHUP = 1)
kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/nginx.pid)

# Send signal by name
kill -l              # List all signal names

# ---- killall and pkill ----

# Kill all processes named 'python3'
killall python3

# Kill with SIGKILL
killall -9 runaway_script

# Kill processes matching a pattern
pkill -f "python3 myscript.py"

# Kill processes owned by a specific user
pkill -u bob

# ---- Process priority (nice / renice) ----

# Start a command at low priority (nice 10)
nice -n 10 tar -czf big_archive.tar.gz /data/

# Start at highest nice (least CPU impact)
nice -n 19 find / -name "*.log" -exec gzip {} \;

# Renice a running process (requires sudo for -20 to -1)
renice -n 5 -p 1234       # Set nice to 5 for PID 1234
sudo renice -n -5 -p 1234 # Increase priority (needs root)

# Renice all processes of a user
renice -n 10 -u alice