How to stop all running mongo background operations?

Question

I am getting this error when running tests in node.

MongoError: cannot perform operation: a background operation is currently running for ...

I need a way to stop all running background operations via the command line.

Answer 1

You need db.killOp(). This will kill a list of current operations which you can obtain via db.currentOp() which returns a list of all the current operations.