diff --git a/src/utils/kill.ts b/src/utils/kill.ts
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+import { NS } from '@ns';
+
+export const kill = (ns: NS, hostname: string) => {
+  // get a list of all the running processes on the specified host
+  const processes = ns.ps(hostname);
+
+  let killedProcesses = 0;
+  let killedThreads = 0;
+  let memFreed = 0;
+
+  processes.forEach((process) => {
+    // calculate the amount of memory that will be freed by killing this process
+    memFreed = process.threads * ns.getScriptRam(process.filename);
+
+    // kill each process by its pid
+    ns.kill(process.pid);
+
+    // update the counters
+    killedProcesses++;
+    killedThreads += process.threads;
+    memFreed += memFreed;
+  });
+
+  ns.tprint(`Killed processes on ${hostname}:`);
+  ns.tprint(`Processes killed: ${killedProcesses}`);
+  ns.tprint(`Threads killed: ${killedThreads}`);
+  ns.tprint(`Memory freed: ${memFreed} GB`);
+};