Yes, I'm familiar with celery, and eventually we would like to migrate to that, or some other task scheduler. Right now, though, that's not in the cards, and folks are griping about these zombies.
Brian Bouterse wrote: > > You should look into projects called celery and django-celery instead of > cron. > > On Friday, August 12, 2011, Thomas Orozco <g.orozco.tho...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> You could avoid starting the child process in your view. >> >> If it's a long running process I would actually advocate doing so. >> This might be due to limited understanding on my part, but what happens > when Apache wants to kill its child process because MaxRequests was > reached? >> >> If you don't need the job done ASAP, you could for example have a > directory where you store 'job files' and have a Cron script look at them. > You could obviously store this in a database too. >> >> Your script could then wait on the processes to collect the returncodes > and avoid this defunct process phenomenom. >> >> This is of course just a suggestion, although I'm pretty sure it would > work, I wouldn't say that it's the one and only way of doing what you > want. >> >> Le 12 août 2011 13:19, "SixDegrees" <paulcarli...@comcast.net> a écrit : >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com < > django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> > > -- > Brian Bouterse > ITng Services > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Defunct-Processes-on-Server-tp32249402p32250150.html Sent from the django-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.