How to forcefully stop and kill a process in Linux

Now stopping this way does not means that the process is killed. If I see list of process

Here as we see the stat shows "T" which means stopped.

How do we list stopped processes?

By executing "jobs" command as below
# jobs
[1]+  Stopped                 yum whatprovides */python-deltarpm
This command will list you all the process which are in stopped state

How to kill a stopped process?

Here we need to use the identifier which is assigned to each stopped process. Here in our case as we see the identifier is [1]

So the command to kill this particular process would be
# kill %1

[1]+  Stopped                 yum whatprovides */python-deltarpm
Immediately now if I try to see the list of available stopped processes
# jobs
[1]+  Exit 1                  yum whatprovides */python-deltarpm
Here now it is trying to Exit as we see above

Again after few seconds if I give the same command
# jobs
No output so I do not have any stopped processes

I hope this article was useful.