Starting and Stopping Zing Memory

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Starting Zing Memory
Stopping Zing Memory

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Important

Azul Zing System Tools (ZST) is deprecated, and support is scheduled to end on September 1, 2027. After this date, Azul will no longer provide updates or support for ZST. Please contact Azul Support if you have questions about migrating.

This page describes how to start and stop Zing Memory with Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK (Zing).

Starting Zing Memory

To start Zing Memory:

Login to your system as root.
Ensure there are no running processes using Zing Memory, type:
```
 $ zing-ps
```
On the Zing system, at the system prompt or through scripts, as root, execute the command:
- For RHEL, SLES, or Ubuntu:
```
 # service zing-memory start
```
  If you receive an error indicating the service does not exist, run the following command.
- For RHEL, SLES:
```
 # /etc/init.d/zing-memory start
```
- For Ubuntu:
```
 # initctl start zing-memory
```

Stopping Zing Memory

To stop Zing Memory:

Login to your system as root.
Ensure there are no running processes using Zing Memory, type:
```
 zing-ps
```
On the Zing system, at the system prompt or through scripts, as root, execute the command:
- For RHEL, SLES, or Ubuntu:
```
 # service zing-memory stop
```