After closing a database, the writer thread will stop almost immediately…

After closing a database, the writer thread will stop almost immediately (instead of after at most 100 ms). This should avoid error messages in the Tomcat log file after a shutdown.

h2/src/main/org/h2/store/WriterThread.java

@@ -95,16 +95,18 @@ public class WriterThread implements Runnable {
 
             // wait 0 mean wait forever, which is not what we want
             wait = Math.max(wait, Constants.MIN_WRITE_DELAY);
-            do {
+            synchronized (this) {
+                while (!stop && wait > 0) {
                     // wait 100 ms at a time
                     int w = Math.min(wait, 100);
                     try {
-                    Thread.sleep(w);
+                        wait(w);
                     } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                         // ignore
                     }
                     wait -= w;
-            } while (wait > 0 && !stop);
+                }
+            }
         }
         databaseRef = null;
     }
@@ -114,6 +116,11 @@ public class WriterThread implements Runnable {
      */
     public void stopThread() {
         stop = true;
+        synchronized (this) {
+            notify();
+        }
+        // can't do thread.join(), because this thread might be holding
+        // a lock that the writer thread is waiting for
     }
 
     /**
@@ -122,7 +129,7 @@ public class WriterThread implements Runnable {
      */
     public void startThread() {
         thread.start();
-        this.thread = null;
+        thread = null;
     }
 
 }