Scalix taking a long time to shut down

[adhodgson]

Hi,

I was upgrading to 11.1 last night, and Scalix took over 5 minutes to shut down completely using the omshut command - I also tried stopping with service scalix stop, with the same results.

Anyone else getting this?
Thanks.
Andrew.

[btisdall]

This can happen when there are one or more ual processes that don't terminate gracefully - in this case omshut waits for a period defined by the 't' option before terminating them anyway (the init script basically just calls omshut when run with 'stop' so no surprise there).

The default is 5 mins, but, having observed this behavior myself during a UPS test I shortened it to 1 minute by editing /etc/init.d/scalix, reasoning that it was better for the odd process to have the rug pulled out from under its feet than having the batteries drain before the disks were unmounted.