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The stop action tries to do an orderly shutdown of the server. But there are situations like issue 171947 where the server is beyond help... and it just needs a good swift 'kill -9' treatment. the stop action should be extended to make this possible... It probably needs to have a dialog box, to make sure the user wants to pull the trigger on the kill.