You should generally NOT ignore the exception. Take a look at the following paper: Don’t swallow interrupts Sometimes throwing InterruptedException is not an option, such as when a task defined by Runnable calls an interruptible method. In this case, you can’t rethrow InterruptedException, but you also do not want to do nothing. When a blocking … Read more
Using the Job Control of bash to send the process into the background: Ctrl+Z to stop (pause) the program and get back to the shell. bg to run it in the background. disown -h [job-spec] where [job-spec] is the job number (like %1 for the first running job; find about your number with the jobs … Read more
The alternative to calling stop is to use interrupt to signal to the thread that you want it to finish what it’s doing. (This assumes the thread you want to stop is well-behaved, if it ignores InterruptedExceptions by eating them immediately after they are thrown and doesn’t check the interrupted status then you are back … Read more