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| The 'kill' command on *nix machines will invoke a thread dump when the highest level of killing a process is inflicted. To perform the highest level of kill, and to generate a thread dump of the process that is being eradicated, run the following command: | The 'kill' command on *nix machines will invoke a thread dump when the highest level of killing a process is inflicted. To perform the highest level of kill, and to generate a thread dump of the process that is being eradicated, run the following command: | ||
| - | '''kill -QUIT process-id#''' (note that some flavors of *nix actually expect a -9 instead of -QUIT) | + | <table border=3 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=3 align=center> |
| + | <tr> | ||
| - | This is not so much a Java command as it is an OS command. | + | <th>Command</th> |
| + | <th>Level</th> | ||
| + | <th>Explanation</th> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr> | ||
| + | <td align=center rowspan=2>'''kill'''</td> | ||
| + | <td align=center>-3</td> | ||
| + | <td>SIGQUIT - Sends a quit command to the process; causes thread dump to stdout</td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr> | ||
| + | <td align=center>-9</td> | ||
| + | <td>SIGKILL - ''Kills the process''; causes thread dump to stdout</td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | </table> | ||
| '''NOTE: -9 WILL TERMINATE PROCESS. USE -3 IF PROCESS TERMINATION IS NOT DESIRED.''' ''(see [[Comments:Dumps From a Java Process]] page)'' | '''NOTE: -9 WILL TERMINATE PROCESS. USE -3 IF PROCESS TERMINATION IS NOT DESIRED.''' ''(see [[Comments:Dumps From a Java Process]] page)'' | ||
