Yup, you are right. The processes are dead but have an entry in the process table. I fixed this issue btw.
Cheers, Yi -- http://www.yiqiang.org On 10/11/07, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 11, 2007, at 10:19 AM, William Stein wrote: > > > > > On 10/11/07, Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Michael, > >> I think there is a problem with the way the individual workers are > >> restarted > >> which leaves them as zombie processes. I'll look into this. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Yi > > > > Yep. I killed them all, since my entire huge job finished (yes!). > > But yeah, it would be good to make sure zombies don't get created > > in the future. > > FWIW, zombies are fairly light-weight processes :-} > > They are really skeletons of what the process was: essentially enough > state information so that the parent can "reap" them and collect the > status information (I think it amounts to a process descriptor in the > kernel), so even 300 of them shouldn't be a drain (despite > Hollywood's unflattering depiction of them :-}). > > It does pay to get rid of them, of course. > > Justin > > -- > Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large > Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds > -------- > Men are from Earth. > Women are from Earth. > Deal with it. > -------- > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
