[evla-sw-discuss] obs2script

[Pat Van Buskirk]

Yes actual running processes, found via top, not via ps. Eva had slowed 
to a crawl, so they looked at top to find out what was going on. They 
found the processes, killed them, and Eva came back to normal.



Bryan Butler wrote:
> 
> not in the normal case.  were these actually active processes (i.e., 
> when you say they "found" the sessions running, what does that mean)?
> 
> when run from the command line, obs2script should always just run to 
> completion.  if for some odd reason it got itself into an infinite loop 
> (i've never seen it happen or seen it reported, but who knows...) and 
> the operator left it to run in the terminal, then multiple processes 
> could exist.  that seems an odd situation though.
> 
> might it be that the operator did a %ps -aux or some equivalent and saw 
> processes that weren't actually active (zombies)?
> 
>     -bryan
> 
> 
> On 11/22/06 08:15, Pat Van Buskirk wrote:
>> The operators found 7 obs2script sessions running on Eva last night 
>> and wondered if it is not exiting properly when they run it manually. 
>> Is there something special we need to do when it is run manually?
>>
>> Thanks for the help,
>> Pat
>>
>>
> 

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