title: Can I just kill mongod to stop mongo?
body: <p>I am very new at Mongo. I am running <code>mongod</code> as described <a href="http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/deploy-replica-set-for-testing/">here</a> in <code>Mac OS X</code>. I am running two <code>mongod</code> processes from the command line. If I need to stop the <code>mongod</code> processes I just execute <code>kill &lt;pid of mongod&gt;</code>. Is it the recommended way to stop <code>mongod</code>?</p>