[evla-sw-discuss] obs2script

[Bryan Butler]

wierd.  i guess there's no record of which files caused this?

i wonder if it could happen when rich's interface invokes obs2script to convert 
a file automatically.  rich, any thoughts?

anyway, that's a strange one.

	-bryan


On 11/27/06 09:02, Pat Van Buskirk wrote:
> 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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