KILL (-9) is supposed to exit immediately without doing any work. TERM (-15) is supposed to work like you proposed. Don't use kill -9 if you want cleanup.
** Changed in: nova Status: New => Opinion ** Changed in: nova Status: Opinion => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1702268 Title: scheduler service does not exit gracefully on receiving sigkill signal Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Won't Fix Bug description: When user sends sigkill signal to nova-scheduler parent process, parent process terminates immediately without processing the current request. Old message remains in rabbitmq. If new request is sent then it remains in rabbitmq. When nova-scheduler is up again then it picks all requests from rabbitmq for processing. Note: If user sends sigterm signal to nova-scheduler then parent process waits until current request is completed. Expected behavior: 1. scheduler should complete current request before exiting - Not Good 2. scheduler should not accept new request for processing - Good To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1702268/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp