title: kill the searchd sphinx process from php
body: <p>I couldn't kill the searchd process in Linux/Centos from php file, however I can do that directly from ssh</p>
  
  <pre><code> public function doStop()
      { 
  
      $command = '/usr/bin/killall -9 searchd';
  
       exec($command);   
          return $this;
      } 
  </code></pre>