How to Stop A ColdFusion MX-7 Scheduled Task that has already started

Question

I inherited a coldfusion MX7 application that has a long running process, which the user kicked by accident.

By my calculations, at the current rate, the job will run for 3 days.

There doesnt seem to be a way through the administrator interface to stop a job that is running.

The table that is being filled can be easily repopulated, so I would think stopping the coldfusion service wont effect anything except the table, which isnt a problem.

Am I right? Is that safe? Is there another way?

Answer 1

a one-time restart of the service should be fine. for the future, you may want to add a required url param or other such safety mechanism to keep this long process from accidentally going off.

Answer 2

Check to see if the task already has an explicit timeout out set

• Explicit Timeout

Otherwise the default page time out is used

• Server Settings

For newer versions of ColdFusion 8 and above, you can kill a running page with with the Server Monitor in the section labeled "Aborting unresponsive or troublesome requests/threads"

• Using server monitor.

It also may be possible to stop the processing by killing the SQL Server Task:

• Is there a task manager of sorts for SQL Server 2008 and on?