Question

I have a few executor services which schedule local tasks such as reading a file, connecting to db etc. These processes do huge amount of logging, which is extensive based on the fact there are many threads running concurrently, writing their own thing into the log.

Now, at some point in time an exception can be raised, which reaches the main method where all exceptions are caught. I am then shutting down all the services and cancelling each task, hoping to prevent all further messages to the log. Unfortunately, the messages are still showing up after I shut everything down… Any ideas?

UPDATE:
Here is some code

public class Scheduler{

private final ExecutorService service;
private final ConcurrentMap<Object, Future<V>> cache;

...

public void shutDown() {
    service.shutdownNow();
    for (Future task : cache.values())
        task.cancel(true);
}

Answer 1

The task will carry on running until it reaches a point where it detects the Thread has been interrupted. This can happen when calling some System or Thread functions and you may get an exception thrown. In your case you probably need to check yourself by calling

Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted()

It is a good idea to do this if your code runs loops and you are expecting to be stopped in this way.