<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sorry, replying too soon before fully investigating. They *are* forking over and over again repeatedly as fast as possible… making them hard to kill. They fork a child and the parent exits immediately.. and that repeats endlessly. My VM is too slow right now that even a tight pkill loop doesn't hit them before they've forked again.<div><br><div><a href="http://paste.openstack.org/show/18338/">http://paste.openstack.org/show/18338/</a><br><div><br></div><div>Only recourse may be to reboot my VM.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 4, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Chris Behrens wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>The only thing I notice is about a 50% increase in the unit test run time very recently… I don't know when that started.. maybe today. Not seeing the 100s of python processes. Hm!<br><br>- Chris<br><br><br>On Jun 4, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Today I've noticed some significant problems with nova's test suite<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">leaving literally hundreds of python processes out. I'm guessing that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">this has to do with the unit tests for the multiprocess patch, which was<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">just approved. This could be causing problems with jenkins, too…<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Anybody have any other insights?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-- <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kevin L. Mitchell <<a href="mailto:kevin.mitchell@rackspace.com">kevin.mitchell@rackspace.com</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Post to : <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Unsubscribe : <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">More help : <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp">https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp</a><br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>