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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?

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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.

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    Restarting the service could be disruptive. Depending on what the scheduled job is doing, it might be better to let it run. It's a judgement call. – Dan Bracuk Nov 27 '12 at 01:40
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Check to see if the task already has an explicit timeout out set

Otherwise the default page time out is used

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"

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

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