I have a website hosted on a basic droplet. It has 25GB on memory. This is plenty of space to run a basic nodejs backend as the code repo is pretty small.
The droplet has 12GB of free memory but this keeps filling up with log files. The droplet came with some ‘hello’ example and I found the pm2 logs related to this.
In the pm2 error log it says “cannot find module /var/www/html/hello.js…”…
I have gone and deleted the code and nginx config for this application. It looks like pm2 is tryin to run it and failing. I can’t find where pm2 is trying to run this. This application doesn’t show when I do pm2 list so i can’t stop it. It only shows my nodejs backend, and I also installed pm2-lograte to manage the log files. I looked in the pm2 startup scripts thinking that it came back after a restart but I don’t see it listed there…
So my question is, how do i find and stop the hello application?
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I just discoverd, that there were 2 instances of the pm2 God daemon running. So when I ran the pm2 list, it wouldn’t recognize the hello application because it was under a different user.
I uninstalled pm2, deleted the folders that were not needed for the second pm2 install. Installed pm2 again. And started my application.
I think this solved it. Now I only see one instances of pm2 running and it’s the one on the root folder
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