i agree with Chuck and would add these commands for consideration on a windows box
netstat -ano will show the pid of any java job which is tied to a tcp port likewise (on windows only): wmic process get /all /value is another win vista/win7/xp pro+ command which will show all the output from all pid's including the command line options or more specifically something like this: wmic process where "commandline like '%java%'" get commandline, processid hope this helps someone out there ________________________________ From: "Caldarale, Charles R" <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Wed, December 2, 2009 9:32:18 AM Subject: RE: How to get java process id of a user running tomcat > From: Pierre Goupil [mailto:goupilpie...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: How to get java process id of a user running tomcat > > " jps -mlv " will give you the PIDs of all running Java processes. Plus > it's a part of the standard SUN JVM. But not for the OP, who is running an unsupported version of Tomcat on an unsupported JVM that predates the jps tool. As Pid suggested, the correct thing to do is to fix the webapp so it properly manages the threads it has started. Attack the problem, not the symptom. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers.