diff --git a/async_pg/Cargo.toml b/async_pg/Cargo.toml
index 5ac11a7c..d7209f61 100644
--- a/async_pg/Cargo.toml
+++ b/async_pg/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ deadpool-postgres = "0.5.0"
 derive_more = "0.99.2"
 dotenv = "0.15.0"
 serde = { version = "1.0.104", features = ["derive"] }
-tokio = { version = "0.2.11", features = ["signal"] }
 tokio-pg-mapper = "0.1.4"
 tokio-pg-mapper-derive = "0.1.4"
 tokio-postgres = "0.5.1"
diff --git a/async_pg/src/main.rs b/async_pg/src/main.rs
index 80d154aa..8d48c682 100644
--- a/async_pg/src/main.rs
+++ b/async_pg/src/main.rs
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ mod handlers {
 use actix_web::{web, App, HttpServer};
 use dotenv::dotenv;
 use handlers::add_user;
-use tokio::signal::unix::{signal, SignalKind};
 use tokio_postgres::NoTls;
 
 #[actix_rt::main]
@@ -129,15 +128,5 @@ async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
     .run();
     println!("Server running at http://{}/", config.server_addr);
 
-    let srv = server.clone();
-    let mut stream = signal(SignalKind::interrupt())?;
-    actix_rt::spawn(async move {
-        loop {
-            stream.recv().await;
-            println!("\nSIGINT Received.  Stopping server.\n");
-            srv.stop(true).await;
-        }
-    });
-
     server.await
 }
diff --git a/shutdown-server/README.md b/shutdown-server/README.md
index cf061407..7a23c70c 100644
--- a/shutdown-server/README.md
+++ b/shutdown-server/README.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Demonstrates how to shutdown the web server in a couple of ways:
 	- Created in response to actix/actix-web#1315
 
 2. sending a SIGINT signal to the server (control-c)
+	- actix-server natively supports SIGINT
 
 
 ## Usage
diff --git a/shutdown-server/src/main.rs b/shutdown-server/src/main.rs
index 72cb0f7e..b051a57b 100644
--- a/shutdown-server/src/main.rs
+++ b/shutdown-server/src/main.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use actix_web::{get, middleware, post, web, App, HttpResponse, HttpServer};
 use futures::executor;
 use std::{sync::mpsc, thread};
-use tokio::signal::unix::{signal, SignalKind};
+
 
 #[get("/hello")]
 async fn hello() -> &'static str {
@@ -51,15 +51,6 @@ async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
         executor::block_on(srv.stop(true))
     });
 
-    let mut stream = signal(SignalKind::interrupt())?;
-    actix_rt::spawn(async move {
-        loop {
-            stream.recv().await;
-            println!("\n*** SIGINT received. Stopping server, gracefully. ***\n");
-            stopper.send(()).unwrap();
-        }
-    });
-
     // run server
     server.await
 }