How to close a websocket connection?

[James-Unicrypt]

Hello!

I'm relying on etherjs to run frequent cron jobs back end. Im using a ethers.providers.WebSocketProvider and storing the provider globally. It seems sometimes this provider loses connection (after 2 days or so, and fails to reconnect thereafter)

I used to then have a one-day recurring cron job that resets the global provider e.g.
globalProvider = new ethers.providers.WebSocketProvider('URL') // overwrite old provider

The problem is with time this was leading to a ton of open but dead socket connections to my node which eventually causes it to lock up. How can I drop a provider connection properly? I cant seem to find this in the docs and there is no provider.close() method?

[ricmoo]

You can use the .destroy() method to terminate a WebSocketProvider:

// Once the promise resolves, the connection should be destroyed. If the
// provider was still connecting, this will stall until the connection has started
// or failed, then this method will resolve
await websocketProvider.destroy();

[ricmoo]

(moving to discussion)

[James-Unicrypt]

Ok great! Thanks I'll give this a go, Appreciated ricmoo :)