[p4] What happen when P4D is stopped

[Robert Cowham]

Check out the Google presentation:
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/eu/2006/index.html
This talks about killing child processes automatically if they lock too much
of the database. As it mentions, you don't want to go around killing a child
process in the middle of a write to the database as that risks corruption.

As Dave says, stop the server in a "nice" way (not kill -9) and all will be
well. 

Robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Lewis [mailto:dlewis78731 at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 23 March 2007 15:15
> To: Bob Aiello
> Cc: paul goffin; Robert Cowham; Perforce Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [p4] What happen when P4D is stopped
> 
> you don't want to do a kill -9, but a plain kill will do the 
> job nicely.  there is also the p4 admin stop command. for all 
> perforce does, I find the care and feeding of it pretty simple.
> 
> dave
> 
> On 3/23/07, Bob Aiello <bob.aiello at fxall.com> wrote:
> > If its just a process then I understand. But most startup 
> and shutdown involves a few more steps. For example a kill -1 
> (via an interupt caught) does cleanup but a kill -9 is 
> immediate. Usually the internals of startup and shutdown are 
> more detailed. But if it is just a process then that is 
> fine... Thanks!
> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From:   paul goffin [mailto:paul.goffin at dsl.pipex.com]
> > Sent:   Friday, March 23, 2007 09:45 AM Eastern Standard Time
> > To:     Bob Aiello
> > Cc:     Robert Cowham; Pankaj Gupta; Perforce Users Mailing List
> > Subject:        Re: [p4] What happen when P4D is stopped
> >
> > The "Procedure" is that you start the p4d process to start 
> the server 
> > and kill it to stop it.
> >
> > It really isn't complicated.
> >
> > What are people actually asking here?
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> >
> >
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