How to restart MySQL from the server if it is taking many connections

Steps to restart the MySQL service if it is taking many connections :-

step1  pgrep mysql (it will show the processes’ ids)
step2  pgrep mysql > mysql.txt
step3  for i in `cat mysql.txt`; do { kill -9 $i; }; done;
step4  /etc/init.d/mysql start

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