node4 process - what is it?

On checking ps to view running processes, there’s “node4” showing up with a considerable memory requirement (~50 MB). This far, I haven’t found any references to what the purpose of the node4 process is and whether it can/should be disabled (…and how).
Any ideas?

Thanks.

On checking ps to view running processes, there’s “node4” showing up with a considerable memory requirement (~50 MB). This far, I haven’t found any references to what the purpose of the node4 process is and whether it can/should be disabled (…and how).

Any ideas?

Hi Torkel,

It is used by cloud9. First find out where cloud9 is located using “which cloud9” and then cat that file to see something like “node4 <path to cloud9/cloud9, -l 0.0.0.0 –w ”. It is probably started by systemd at startup.

Regards,

John

Thanks.

Thanks, John - appreciated.

I’ll give systemctl disable cloud9.service a try, then - and reboot, to verify that the process doesn’t get started again.