Program does not terminate immediately when all ExecutorService tasks are done

Question

I put a bunch of runnable objects into an ExecutorService:

// simplified content of main method
ExecutorService threadPool = Executors.newCachedThreadPool();         


        

Answer 1

It is due to combination keepAliveTime=60L, timeunit=TimeUnit.SECONDS and corePoolSize=0*: when thread completes task, it does not terminate immediately, it may** wait during keepAliveTime for a new task.

 public static ExecutorService newCachedThreadPool() {
        return new ThreadPoolExecutor(0, Integer.MAX_VALUE,
                                      60L, TimeUnit.SECONDS,
                                      new SynchronousQueue());
    }

*if core poolSize != 0 see method allowCoreThreadTimeOut() of ThreadPoolExecutor

**waiting depends on combination of current quantity of running threads in pool, corePoolSize and maximumPoolSize