Max shutdown Option

Updated in release: 7.0.5

The Dispatcher option (available under   and   ) specifies  a maximum number of processes that may be shutting down. In order to provide a minimum availability for the service, the Dispatcher will not shut down Worker Processes that might otherwise be eligible to be shut down if shutting them down would result in having more than  Worker Processes for the service in the shutting down state. This means that processes that may be eligible to be shut down may continue running until a shutdown "slot" is available. Having this option set to about half of the value of the   option is usually appropriate. The  option may be set either directly under , as a default for all services, or may be set for a named     to affect solely that named. As of 7.0.5, the default value is 5.

The default value is: 5

See also:
 * Dispatcher options
 * max_procs Option
 * Service group