kill -3 should not kill tomcat, it should just make tomcat write a thread dump to a file. Having said that, since jps and jstack exists, I use them instead of kill -3
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/share/jstack.html Maarten On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Kumar Abhishek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On 9/20/10 3:02 PM, Kumar Abhishek wrote: > > > >> 2 CPUs of the following configuration(Intel Dual Core XEON Processor 3.3 > >> Ghz > >> ) > >> > >> Using thread dump on tomcat java process is a bit risky for us as it > will > >> bring down all our web services. > >> > > > > Kill -3 bringing down services ??? How possible ? > > > yes because java of tomcat is running in background > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Cordialement, > > Emmanuel Lécharny > > www.iktek.com > > > > >
