There clearly is a problem with the cron processes. Massimo
On Jul 28, 4:10 pm, MikeEllis <michael.f.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > Update: (Summarizes a couple of emails exchanged with Massimo) > > Yesterday I found that my instance of web2py appeared be "leaking" > processes at about 1 per hour. Massimo suggested running with -N to > disable cron. I started two instances this way -- one under winpdb > and another directly. They've been running almost 24 hours now and > neither has added any processes. As noted earlier, my app has nothing > in crontab. The admin and examples apps have the crontabs that are "as > shipped" in v1.85. > > Cheers, > Mike > > On Jul 27, 12:17 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On Jul 27, 2010, at 9:01 AM, Michael Ellis wrote: > > > > Thanks for the info about sloth. I may try it later. It was pretty easy > > > to get what I needed with ipython: > > > > procs = !ps ax | grep "web2py" > > > pids = [r[0] for r in procs.fields()[0:-2]] > > > for p in pids: > > > print p > > > !lsof | grep $p | wc > > > Also: sudo launchctl limit maxfiles > > > I see 256 by default. The second limit is the "hard limit", beyond which > > you can't configure (unlimited in this case). > > >http://serverfault.com/questions/15564/where-are-the-default-ulimits-...
