From JMeter dev mailing list: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jmeter-dev/201303.mbox/%3C20130311173319.5C162C129%40tyr.zones.apache.org%3E GitHub user scotte opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/3 Add flag forcing non-GUI JVM to exit after test This is useful for cases when JMeter is run by an automated system (such as CI builds) and tests start threads that prevent the JVM from cleanly shutting down. The existing property to do a full JVM shutdown (jmeterengine.stopfail.system.exit) only executes when the test is explicitly asked to stop. We needed to unconditionally insure the JVM is terminated when the test was finished, even if the tests themselves did things which left the JVM in a state where JMeter could not cleanly exit in non-GUI mode. The new flag is "jmeterengine.force.system.exit" and defaults to "false". You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/scotte/jmeter trunk Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/3.patch
Applied to SVN: URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1455289 Log: Add flag forcing non-GUI JVM to exit after test Bugzilla Id: 54669 Modified: jmeter/trunk/bin/jmeter.properties jmeter/trunk/src/core/org/apache/jmeter/engine/StandardJMeterEngine.java jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/3073