Kill all Gradle Daemons Regardless Version?

Question

Summary

I would like to know how to kill every single gradle daemon and process running on a machine regardless of the version of gradle or the vers

Answer 1

The gradle daemons did not disappear after 3hrs; this could be since I am running as Linux Guest in VirtualBox.

And hence, the following removes all gradle daemons but it could be "frowned upon" since it might be excessive...

(1) ./gradlew --stop to ensure all daemons are stopped

(2) delete all folders/files in .gradle folder in the project

(3) delete .gradle folder in /home/username/ Linu (4) reboot

All daemons are gone. The next build takes a bit longer but worthwhile as do not like seeing 6 stopped daemons everytime a gradle build or even clean is started.

Answer 2

Under linux you may use pkill:

pkill -f '.*GradleDaemon.*'

Under windows you may use wmic:

WMIC PROCESS where "Name like 'java%' AND CommandLine like '%GradleDaemon%'" Call Terminate

PS. Why "no scripting" when it is probably the easiest solution?

Answer 3

The gradle --status command will show you the process ids for each of the daemons. You can then use your OS to kill those processes.

I'm assuming this is cross-platform functionality, but this is the output on Windows:

  PID STATUS   INFO
10276 IDLE     5.4.1
14068 IDLE     5.4.1

It's a bit better than playing whack-a-mole with every java.exe process running on your system. Although it would be nice if gradle had a command that could terminate all running gradle daemons built-in.