# Releasing processes by restarting the kernel

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/releasing-processes-by-restarting-the-kernel/15066>\
**Category:** Julia at Scale\
**Created:** [September 17, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/releasing-processes-by-restarting-the-kernel/15066 "2018-09-17T13:08:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/releasing-processes-by-restarting-the-kernel/15066/1 "2018-09-17T13:08:26Z")

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Does restarting a kernel (either from the command line or Jupyter) will also release running processes added by `addprocs()`? By looking at the CPU usage using `top` from the command line, it appears that this is not the case, but it is hard to be sure.

I am aware that one can delete procs using `rmprocs()`, but occasionally, I need to kill some long running jobs in the middle of the execution.