Java process on Mac OSX does not release socket

Question

I am experiencing an odd problem every now and then (too often actually).

I am running a server application, which is binding a socket for itself.

But once in a

Answer 1

if you think that the resources are not properly released, you can try to do the release in a shutdownhook. like this at least when its shut down the resouces will be released (not though if you hard kill)

an example for a very basic shutdownhook:

public void shutDownProceedure(){
    Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread() {
        public void run() {
            /* my shutdown code here */
        }
    });
}

This helped me release resources that somehow weren't entirely released before. I don't know if this works for sockets as well, i think it should.

It also allowed me to see loggings i haven't seen before