# Cardano Service stop **URL:** \ **Category:** Misc Dev Talk\ **Created:** [6 December 2021 00:26 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-service-stop/87928 "2021-12-06T00:26:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![COSDpool](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/cosdpool/32/21482_2.png) [@COSDpool](https://forum.cardano.org/u/COSDpool)\ **Post date:** [6 December 2021 00:59 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-service-stop/87928/2 "2021-12-06T00:59:19Z")
`TimeoutStopSec=` as well as some other related options; look around this section: [https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html#TimeoutStopSec=](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html#TimeoutStopSec=) You can set these parameters if you start `cardano-node` as a service, as described in the manual page above, with a Cardano example in the second part of this posting: > [@Pool maintenance routines](https://forum.cardano.org/t/pool-maintenance-routines/39469/2): > > Here are some things I needed to do to feel comfortable taking my eyes off the stake pool node log files every once in a while, after the initial days of staring at them like that creepy guy in The Matrix: Make browser bookmarks to general performance metrics for cloud resources for each node (like DigitalOcean droplet graphs, a bit simple minded but effective; or the AWS CloudWatch pages, not the detailed paid upgrade but just the free ones) to be sure RAM or CPU use isn’t clipping that the m… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-service-stop/87928)._