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Solution 21

How to kill a process running on GPU

Talha Hanif Butt · 2026-01-22 20:57 · 0 claps · 0.2 min read

#nvidia-smi #idp #process #kill #linux

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Solution 21

How to kill a process running on GPU

Use nvidia-smi to get the pid of the process under consideration and then use the following command:

kill -9 <pid>

References

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