quicky: How to stop a rendering report

[MichielvM]

Guys,

I accidentally hit send on a very large pdf report.
Now the Nagios Xi interface is inaccesable. It will take the greater part of 2 hours to complete.

From the Cli i see wkhtmltopdf using up a lot of resources.
Can I safely kill just that proces and be done with it?

[tmcdonald]

That's the process that generates the PDF report and is likely what is taking up all the CPU. I can't say for sure if there are other processes that will need to be killed, but when I read the title of this thread my first thought was wkhtmltopdf.

[MichielvM]

The "other processes" were worrying me.
I let this one run. As predicted it took about 1,5 hour to complete.

Question remains if and which other processes are involved and what's the best practise to kill 'em.

[jolson]

I did a quick test, and it looks like 'wkhtmltopdf' is the only process that comes up when a PDF report is being generated. In my testing, it was perfectly safe the kill the process - doing so would immediately stop the PDF generation. Thanks!