Stop redis server. Neither shutdown nor stop works

Question

I want to stop the redis server and it just keeps going and going. I am using redis-2.6.7

Check that it is running:

redis-server

It say

Answer 1

This is possibly an really important note for some people reading this. If your redis doesn't seem to be responding to a shutdown. CHECK THE LOGS.

They may say something like this:

Apr 24 00:48:54 redis[828]: Received SIGTERM, scheduling shutdown...
Apr 24 00:48:54 redis[828]: User requested shutdown, saving DB...
Apr 24 00:55:37 redis[828]: DB saved on disk

Maybe your DB is multiple GB, or tens of GBs in which case it will take time to shutdown. If instead you want to clean out all keys, there is a better way to do that than shutdown. FLUSHALL