Kill -9 (SIGKILL) is the worst signal to use. It has the advantage to kill quickly the process, but no shutdown hook are called. You should better kill -15 (SIGTERM, which is the default).
2011/7/26 mcasandra <mohitanch...@gmail.com>: > I need to write cassandra start/stop script. Currently I run "cassandra" to > start and kill -9 to stop. > > Is this the best way? kill -9 doesn't sound right :) Wondering how others do > it. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Cassandra-start-stop-scripts-tp6622977p6622977.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >