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

You use the following command to kill the running redis-server process.

ps aux |grep redis

This will list all the running processes for redis-server. Then you can use the following command to kill the redis processes

sudo kill 

sudo kill 7229 //for the above sample.