FW: Incomplete shutdown of the java processes in Linux

["McNeill, John" <jo...@AthensGroup.com>]

On the Linux box we use for testing, we have a Tomcat 4.1.12 instance that
controls two custom webapps and a manager app.  The Tomcat process starts up
fine when I use startup.sh, generating some 35 "java ... start" processes in
my ps list.  However, when I attempt to stop the Tomcat process with
shutdown.sh, about 10 of the java processes do not die, particularly the
parent process.  I must find the parent process and kill it specifically to
completely stop the Tomcat.

 

The 10 processes are identified as running when I look for them with ps -r.
I can run startup.sh again while they remain on the ps list and a new Tomcat
instance is started.  Unhappily, if I do this too often, I use up all the
processes on the box.

 

We have a second Tomcat 4.1.12 instance on the same Linux box that responds
to shutdown.sh perfectly.

 

Has anybody an idea of why this is happening and how I can fix it before we
move the application into production?

 

Thanks.

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