# TestKit: How to turn off daemon?

**URL:** <https://discuss.gradle.org/t/testkit-how-to-turn-off-daemon/17843>\
**Category:** Help/Discuss\
**Created:** [May 31, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/testkit-how-to-turn-off-daemon/17843 "2016-05-31T13:47:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![sherter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@sherter](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/sherter)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/testkit-how-to-turn-off-daemon/17843/5 "2016-06-13T10:51:34Z")

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Unfortunately the debug mode is not an option then. I want to test against Gradle versions \< 2.9.

See [Travis CI: org.gradle.launcher.daemon.client.DaemonDisappearedException: Gradle build daemon disappeared unexpectedly (it may have been killed or may have crashed)](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/travis-ci-org-gradle-launcher-daemon-client-daemondisappearedexception-gradle-build-daemon-disappeared-unexpectedly-it-may-have-been-killed-or-may-have-crashed/13106) for what I did to make Gradle work on Travis

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