> From: Davis, Chad [mailto:chad.da...@emc.com] > Subject: RE: tomcat shutdown clarification
> And how does the -force option affect this? Will that kill the > JVM regardless . . . Usually. The -force option will invoke kill -9 on the Tomcat pid if Tomcat doesn't stop in the specified time, which defaults to five seconds, but may be specified as an argument to the shutdown.sh script. If the pid can't be determined, -force has no effect. > what factors impact how much time might pass before it's actually > dead? Lots of things, including connections to other processes (e.g., database servers), flushing of unwritten buffers to disk, how busy the system is, etc. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org