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Terminate a process

Hathora bills you depending on how long your processes run for. Terminating a process will immediately stop the process and destroy all associated rooms. There are 3 ways a process can be terminated:

  1. Exit the process from within your server
  2. Exit the process via the StopProcess() API endpoint
  3. Idle process reaping (automated by Hathora) automatically terminates the process

Exit via StopProcess() API endpoint​

To kill a process from outside your game server, Hathora offers a StopProcess() API endpoint.

ProcessV2.stopProcess($APP_ID, $PROCESS_ID)

Idle process reaping (automated by Hathora)​

Hathora's idle reaper will automatically detect and terminate a process that has been idle for 5 minutes (no active connections or rooms).