-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chuck,
On 8/14/12 3:20 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> 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. I would say that the most likely thing(s) that would delay Tomcat's shutdown are ServletContextListeners that do a lot of work. If you (Chad) want to know what it happening to Tomcat while it's shutting down (and taking forever to do so), you can take a thread dump of the process and see what's going on. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAqrDQACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PCktgCfYaEetCtTeBZxQRxHrgH2Bigs 1ZkAn1xQKqIg34DjddpGKT2cbBdS4I6q =5zJD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org