Tomcat7 status Stopping in windows service

I have Apache 2.2 and 4 Tomcat7 instance is running

One of the tomcat is configured for 1500 threads and 1024 Mb of Java heap space as the web application require such a deal...

So at time i face a lot of user traffic and the application gets slow, i restart the tomcat for a fix which in-turn makes the service showing status 'STOPPING'

If you want to get out of this situation, you could follow the steps as shown below.

Open Command prompt (Run as Administrator) on Windows Vista and Win 7

Query Service details using the following command (where Tomcat_7.0.7 is the service name of the Tomcat instance):

sc queryex Tomcat_7.0.7

You will be able to find the details related to the service (as shown below):

C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc queryex Tomcat_7.0.7

        SERVICE_NAME: Tomcat_7.0.7
        TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
        STATE              : 3  STOP_PENDING
                                (NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x3
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x0
        PID                : 2340
        FLAGS              :

Now get the PID details from the above, use the command as shown below to kill it (to resolve the issue).

taskkill /PID 2340 /F

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Hope this helps!