[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Is there a faster way to shut down a database than proshut <mydb> -F -by ?

[Valeriy Bashkatov]

I agree with Akshay. And I'll add a little bit that you can try using the -shutdownTimeout parameter with the PROSHUT utility. From the OpenEdge documentation:

-shutdownTimeout [ immed | maximum |n[ h | m | s]] Specifies the amount of time for normal database activity to stop and users be disconnected before immediately shutting down (killing users still connected). If all normal activity ceases before the timeout value is reached, normal shutdown proceeds. If not specified, the default is 10 minutes.

However, keep in mind that those transactions that do not have time to rollback by the time the database is stopped still require time to rollback during the next start of database.

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