Sean, thanks for your link! I will try this ASAP!
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > However I do seem to be able to shut down everything cleanly and > terminate my (Java-based) program. I just call > StreamingContext.stop(true, true). I don't know why it's different. I think that's a peculiarity of sbt, cf. http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.12.2/docs/Detailed-Topics/Running-Project-Code.html If I call System.exit() that will surely terminate my program (and sbt) as well, but in general I think it's better not to have these threads lurking around ;-) Thanks Tobias