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. http://paste.openstack.org/show/18338/ Only recourse may be to reboot my VM. On Jun 4, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Chris Behrens wrote: > 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! > > - Chris > > > On Jun 4, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: > >> Today I've noticed some significant problems with nova's test suite >> leaving literally hundreds of python processes out. I'm guessing that >> this has to do with the unit tests for the multiprocess patch, which was >> just approved. This could be causing problems with jenkins, too… >> >> Anybody have any other insights? >> -- >> Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20120604/8a88090b/attachment.html>