Slow shutdown in JBoss 5

[sergiu_pienar]

Hi,

I'm using JBoss 5.1.0GA. I've implemented some custom code as for when I call shutdown my jobs will stop followed by the MDB's and then the EJB's.

Though I do not get any errors on JBoss shutdown when I have work in progrress and I call shutdown on JBoss it takes a very long time until JBoss finally stops(the average time to stop is about 30 minutes).

What I would like to know is that if an EJB has work-in-progress when shutdown is called, what is the default behaviour ? Will JBoss wait for the EJB to finish properly its work until it stops that EJB ? This is the only idea I can have regarding why I am getting these huge stopping times.

Thank you.

Sergiu.

[wdfink]

Do you check the logfile whether you see activities of your application code?

Can you call a SLSB after you initiate the shutdown?

I suppose the GC is not high active, this can be also a reason, but then the GC activity is also before you shutdown.

[sergiu_pienar]

In the logs I can not see any activities from my application, it all seems to be like JBoss is stopping without any problems ... the only problem is the time it takes to stop.

[jaikiran]

During that 30 minute "pause" get mulitple thread dumps and see what it's upto http://community.jboss.org/wiki/ThreadDump

[sergiu_pienar]

Jaikiran,

I've attached some files created with jstack. Could you please have a look at them and tell me if you notice something suspicious ... I can see a : at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Native Method) which seems to take some time but in my logs there are no errors.

Please advise,

Much obliged,

     Sergiu