Should PM2 God Daemon always be running?

Question

I use pm2 to deal with node projects. Even when all projects are stopped via pm2, I see that pm2 God Daemon is always running and consuming about ~27M Ram. Here how it looks on ps aux: nodeuser 2577 ? Ssl 18:02 0:01 PM2 v0.15.10: God Daemon

The question is, is it built to be that way? Should pm2 God Daemon always be running? However if it is the case, I would like to know why because it didn't make sense to me.

Can I kill pm2 God Daemon via pm2? Or simply kill with kill -9 pid?

Answer 1

With pm2 you can kill the god daemon with

pm2 kill