Which vm do you use?
For IBM and Sun you can call 'kill -QUIT <pid>' to get the
stacktraces of the threads. You can find the output in
catalina.out. That might give you an idea what's causing
these behaviour.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sven Köhler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: java processes after tomcat exits
>
> if i stop my tomcat 4.1.18 with "catalina.sh stop" and type ps aux, i
> still see many java-processes.
>
> tomcat itself doesn't seem to run anymore, but there are still some
