How do I turn my node off?

Do CTRL + C in the terminal window where you’re running the node.

There is a known issue where sometimes this doesn’t kill the node. In that case:

Do CTRL + Z in the terminal window where you’re running the node. This should print something like:

[1]+ Stopped /home/youruser/go/src/github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/build/avalanche

Do kill -9 %1 (or kill -9 %2 if it printed [2]+ Stopped, etc.)