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From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" <laanwj@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:06:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Merge #11006: Improve shutdown process
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793667a Improve shutdown process (João Barbosa)

Pull request description:

  Improve the shutdown time by not having to wait up to 2 seconds.

  Here is a comparison running `wallet.py` function tests before this PR:
  ```
  2017-08-08 03:25:20.881000 TestFramework (INFO): Initializing test directory /var/folders/1v/8_69hby54nj2k3n6fywt44x80000gn/T/testq_ramjjr
  2017-08-08 03:25:23.853000 TestFramework (INFO): Mining blocks...
  2017-08-08 03:25:24.132000 TestFramework (INFO): test getmemoryinfo
  2017-08-08 03:25:24.559000 TestFramework (INFO): test gettxout
  2017-08-08 03:25:59.858000 TestFramework (INFO): check -rescan
  2017-08-08 03:26:07.735000 TestFramework (INFO): check -reindex
  2017-08-08 03:26:15.751000 TestFramework (INFO): check -zapwallettxes=1
  2017-08-08 03:26:24.105000 TestFramework (INFO): check -zapwallettxes=2
  2017-08-08 03:26:36.694000 TestFramework (INFO): Stopping nodes
  2017-08-08 03:26:43.599000 TestFramework (INFO): Cleaning up
  2017-08-08 03:26:43.612000 TestFramework (INFO): Tests successful
  ```
  After:
  ```
  2017-08-08 03:24:04.319000 TestFramework (INFO): Initializing test directory /var/folders/1v/8_69hby54nj2k3n6fywt44x80000gn/T/testoqeyi50_
  2017-08-08 03:24:07.035000 TestFramework (INFO): Mining blocks...
  2017-08-08 03:24:07.317000 TestFramework (INFO): test getmemoryinfo
  2017-08-08 03:24:07.763000 TestFramework (INFO): test gettxout
  2017-08-08 03:24:25.715000 TestFramework (INFO): check -rescan
  2017-08-08 03:24:27.792000 TestFramework (INFO): check -reindex
  2017-08-08 03:24:29.797000 TestFramework (INFO): check -zapwallettxes=1
  2017-08-08 03:24:32.207000 TestFramework (INFO): check -zapwallettxes=2
  2017-08-08 03:24:36.812000 TestFramework (INFO): Stopping nodes
  2017-08-08 03:24:37.915000 TestFramework (INFO): Cleaning up
  2017-08-08 03:24:37.927000 TestFramework (INFO): Tests successful
  ```
  This largely improves the time spent in Travis (under evaluation).

Tree-SHA512: 023012fb3f8a380addf5995a4bf865862fed712cdd1a648d82a710e6566bc3bd34b6c49f9f06d6cc6bd81ca859da50d30d7f786c816e702549ab642e3476426f
---
 src/httpserver.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/httpserver.cpp b/src/httpserver.cpp
index 3281107408bf5..9a2437058bd8e 100644
--- a/src/httpserver.cpp
+++ b/src/httpserver.cpp
@@ -477,6 +477,8 @@ void StopHTTPServer()
 
     if (eventBase) {
         LogPrint(BCLog::HTTP, "Waiting for HTTP event thread to exit\n");
+        // Exit the event loop as soon as there are no active events.
+        event_base_loopexit(eventBase, nullptr);
         // Give event loop a few seconds to exit (to send back last RPC responses), then break it
         // Before this was solved with event_base_loopexit, but that didn't work as expected in
         // at least libevent 2.0.21 and always introduced a delay. In libevent