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

start redis: $REDIS_HOME/src/redis-server
stop redis: $REDIS_HOME/src/redis-cli shutdown

$REDIS_HOME where you have installed/extracted redis.