How do I reduce the number of kotlin-daemons or gr...

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[andylamax]

How do I reduce the number of kotlin-daemons or gradle-daemon's in my machine? They take all 16GB that I have. And when I check. I might find something like two kotlin daemons and three gradle daemons.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

To kill gradle daemons, ./gradlew --stop

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

To kill everything else, killall -9 java (might also kill your IDE)

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

You can also run jps and manually kill -9 all the PIDs you don’t want

[andylamax]

I know how to kill them. But I want to stop them from spawning multiple processes. Say if there is one kotlin-daemon, then it shouldn't spawn another and instead use the existing. Since sometimes daemon's can't be reused, then it kills the one alive and spawns a new one. so that at a specific moment there is only kotlin/gradle daemon

[louiscad]

Are you working on multiple projects with different Kotlin versions? That might explain.

[andylamax]

No, I am working one gradle project with multpile subprojects.

[Derek Ellis]

I've had this exact issue before but the only thing I've been able to find to fix it is to reboot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[andylamax]

It is annoying as hell

[louiscad]

Did you report it on kotl.in/issue? Also, specify that it's annoying as hell, that, along with vote count can help prioritize.