[GH-ISSUE #690] Stop Ollama #315

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@BruceMacD commented on GitHub (Oct 3, 2023):

Are you using the Ollama Mac app? If so just exiting the toolbar app will stop the server. The Mac app will restart the server also, if left open.

Here:

Otherwise, in a terminal:

$ pgrep ollama
74877
$ kill 74877

or to stop the Mac App:

osascript -e 'tell app "Ollama" to quit'

@BruceMacD commented on GitHub (Oct 3, 2023): Are you using the Ollama Mac app? If so just exiting the toolbar app will stop the server. The Mac app will restart the server also, if left open. Here: ![image](https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/assets/5853428/8eaaffa4-114c-4bea-98a6-05e72367c13d) Otherwise, in a terminal: ``` $ pgrep ollama 74877 $ kill 74877 ``` or to stop the Mac App: ``` osascript -e 'tell app "Ollama" to quit' ```

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@mora-phi commented on GitHub (Oct 4, 2023):

Thanks a lot, I didn't check in the upper toolbar, my bad.
Indeed, closing properly from there stopped spawning new processes.
Thanks again :-)

@mora-phi commented on GitHub (Oct 4, 2023): Thanks a lot, I didn't check in the upper toolbar, my bad. Indeed, closing properly from there stopped spawning new processes. Thanks again :-)

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@dongyuwei commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2023):

The bug not fixed, can't kill it on Mac.
ollama version 0.1.1

@dongyuwei commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2023): The bug not fixed, can't kill it on Mac. ollama version 0.1.1

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@BruceMacD commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2023):

@dongyuwei have you exited the mac app from the toolbar?

@BruceMacD commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2023): @dongyuwei have you exited the mac app from the toolbar?

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@dongyuwei commented on GitHub (Oct 17, 2023):

Yes. @BruceMacD
I logout my system then re-login, no more ollma.

@dongyuwei commented on GitHub (Oct 17, 2023): Yes. @BruceMacD I logout my system then re-login, no more ollma.

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@jwandekoken commented on GitHub (Oct 18, 2023):

This is happening on Linux too. After I issue the command ollama run model, and after I close the terminal with ctrl + D, the ollama instance keeps running. If I kill it, it just respawn.

Edit: in my case, even after restarting the system, the program keeps re-opening

@jwandekoken commented on GitHub (Oct 18, 2023): This is happening on Linux too. After I issue the command `ollama run model`, and after I close the terminal with `ctrl + D`, the ollama instance keeps running. If I kill it, it just respawn. Edit: in my case, even after restarting the system, the program keeps re-opening

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@BruceMacD commented on GitHub (Oct 18, 2023):

@jwandekoken On Linux Ollama is running on as a systemd service. You can stop it using systemctl.

$ systemctl stop ollama.service

@BruceMacD commented on GitHub (Oct 18, 2023): @jwandekoken On Linux Ollama is running on as a systemd service. You can stop it using `systemctl`. ``` $ systemctl stop ollama.service ```

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@devhims commented on GitHub (Nov 2, 2023):

Are you using the Ollama Mac app? If so just exiting the toolbar app will stop the server. The Mac app will restart the server also, if left open.

Here:

Otherwise, in a terminal:
$ pgrep ollama
74877
$ kill 74877

Thanks! This worked on MacOS.

@devhims commented on GitHub (Nov 2, 2023): > Are you using the Ollama Mac app? If so just exiting the toolbar app will stop the server. The Mac app will restart the server also, if left open. > > Here: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5853428/272356926-8eaaffa4-114c-4bea-98a6-05e72367c13d.png) > > Otherwise, in a terminal: > > ``` > $ pgrep ollama > 74877 > $ kill 74877 > ``` Thanks! This worked on MacOS.

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@JermellB commented on GitHub (Nov 4, 2023):

sudo service ollama stop worked for me on ubuntu

@JermellB commented on GitHub (Nov 4, 2023): `sudo service ollama stop` worked for me on ubuntu

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@devwaseem commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2023):

For Mac:
pkill ollama works

@devwaseem commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2023): For Mac: ```pkill ollama``` works

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@airtonix commented on GitHub (Dec 12, 2023):

systemctl stop ollama.service

Should this not be made obvious by an abstraction?

ollama server start --system

# prompts for sudo to create system.d unit if it doesn't exist and start it

ollama server stop --system

# again, sudo required.

ollama server start

# no sudo required

# user presses: ctrl + d

# server stops.

@airtonix commented on GitHub (Dec 12, 2023): > systemctl stop ollama.service Should this not be made obvious by an abstraction? ``` ollama server start --system # prompts for sudo to create system.d unit if it doesn't exist and start it ollama server stop --system # again, sudo required. ollama server start # no sudo required # user presses: ctrl + d # server stops. ```

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@shayneoneill commented on GitHub (Jan 11, 2024):

This really is not a great behavior. Thanks to the notch on the M1/M2 laptops, the llama icon gets obscured so its not obvious at all its running nor how to access that toolbar item. Is there some sort of config option to just forbid the system from putting things there and using command line start/stop instead? Can I just remove the service entirely?

pkill ollama does NOT solve the problem btw as it somewhat disobediently just restarts it.

Also I have no idea what systemctl is, nor does my mac :(

@shayneoneill commented on GitHub (Jan 11, 2024): This really is not a great behavior. Thanks to the notch on the M1/M2 laptops, the llama icon gets obscured so its not obvious at all its running nor how to access that toolbar item. Is there some sort of config option to just forbid the system from putting things there and using command line start/stop instead? Can I just remove the service entirely? pkill ollama does NOT solve the problem btw as it somewhat disobediently just restarts it. Also I have *no* idea what systemctl is, nor does my mac :(

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@tmceld commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2024):

also having this problem on mac - its def. running, but i don't have anything in the taskbar and pgrep/kill just causes a restart

@tmceld commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2024): also having this problem on mac - its def. running, but i don't have anything in the taskbar and pgrep/kill just causes a restart

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2026-04-12 09:51:59 -05:00

@marhar commented on GitHub (Feb 7, 2024):

I've been having similar problems on my mac... server is running, I don't see anything on my taskbar to stop it, and I can't install the new ollama since the process is running. pkill/pgrep etc as per other users, killing the process just restarts it.

I worked around by rm -rf /Applications/Ollama; pkill ollama which caused an error. Following that, ollama process was not running, and I could install the new Ollama.app into /Applications.

@marhar commented on GitHub (Feb 7, 2024): I've been having similar problems on my mac... server is running, I don't see anything on my taskbar to stop it, and I can't install the new ollama since the process is running. pkill/pgrep etc as per other users, killing the process just restarts it. I worked around by `rm -rf /Applications/Ollama; pkill ollama` which caused an error. Following that, ollama process was not running, and I could install the new Ollama.app into /Applications.

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@MehrCurry commented on GitHub (Feb 15, 2024):

rm -rf /Applications/Ollama; pkill ollama

It has to be rm -rf /Applications/Ollama.app; pkill ollama

@MehrCurry commented on GitHub (Feb 15, 2024): > rm -rf /Applications/Ollama; pkill ollama It has to be `rm -rf /Applications/Ollama.app; pkill ollama`

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@AnirudhaGohokar commented on GitHub (Feb 16, 2024):

How do i stop on windows

@AnirudhaGohokar commented on GitHub (Feb 16, 2024): How do i stop on windows

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@keebOo commented on GitHub (Feb 19, 2024):

In the Mac terminal, I am attempting to check if there is an active service using the command:

lsof -i :11434

This is to verify if anything is running on the ollama standard port.

Following suggestions from other users, I then execute also:

pgrep ollama

After this, if the lsof command shows any process, I use the kill command followed by the PID to terminate the service (pgrep show eventually all the ollama process)

@keebOo commented on GitHub (Feb 19, 2024): In the Mac terminal, I am attempting to check if there is an active service using the command: `lsof -i :11434` This is to verify if anything is running on the ollama standard port. Following suggestions from other users, I then execute also: `pgrep ollama` After this, if the `lsof` command shows any process, I use the `kill` command followed by the PID to terminate the service (pgrep show eventually all the ollama process)

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@HazemElAgaty commented on GitHub (Mar 3, 2024):

I was only able to kill the process using the activity monitor.

@HazemElAgaty commented on GitHub (Mar 3, 2024): I was only able to kill the process using the activity monitor.

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@skytodmoon commented on GitHub (Mar 5, 2024):

I use 'systemctl stop ollama.service' to stop the ollama
But when I use 'systemctl start ollama.service', the default port is bind again.
How to stop the service really?

@skytodmoon commented on GitHub (Mar 5, 2024): I use 'systemctl stop ollama.service' to stop the ollama But when I use 'systemctl start ollama.service', the default port is bind again. How to stop the service really?

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@techkanna commented on GitHub (Mar 14, 2024):

How do i stop on windows??

@techkanna commented on GitHub (Mar 14, 2024): How do i stop on windows??

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@sohaibsoussi commented on GitHub (Mar 14, 2024):

How do i stop on windows??

Use this commande in your powershell : Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.ProcessName -like '*ollama*'} | Stop-Process

@sohaibsoussi commented on GitHub (Mar 14, 2024): > How do i stop on windows?? Use this commande in your powershell : ` Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.ProcessName -like '*ollama*'} | Stop-Process`

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@hpsaturn commented on GitHub (Apr 7, 2024):

In my Debian I can reproduce it. Nothing works: kill, service stop or systemctl fails trying to stop the service, and also produce conflicts with my amdgpu driver: #3527

@hpsaturn commented on GitHub (Apr 7, 2024): In my Debian I can reproduce it. Nothing works: `kill`, `service stop` or `systemctl` fails trying to stop the service, and also produce conflicts with my `amdgpu` driver: #3527

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@tamashalasi commented on GitHub (Apr 14, 2024):

Not a good practice, but pkill -9 ollama works for now on Arch Linux (probably other distros as well). Haven't experienced any file corruption so far, but be careful with it.

@tamashalasi commented on GitHub (Apr 14, 2024): Not a good practice, but `pkill -9 ollama` works for now on Arch Linux (probably other distros as well). Haven't experienced any file corruption so far, but be careful with it.

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