Re: [HTCondor-users] condor_shadow producing zombie (defunct) processes (Condor 8.0.3)

[Antonio Chay <achay@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Michael!

We'll try to push a newer version (condor_ssh is a long time friend
right now and cgroups is our next step).
Antonio.


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Michael Pelletier <mvpel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> We've detected some zombie processes produced by condor_shadow
>> Currently using:
>>
>> CentOS release 6.4
>> condor-8.0.3-174914.x86_64 (from wisc.edu)
> I'm using essentially the same setup (RedHat 6.4 instead of CentOS), except with 8.0.4 plus patched procd which will be in 8.0.5 (to fix a bug in "-interactive"), and I haven't observed this behavior on my submit host. I skipped 8.0.3 and went to 8.0.4 from, I think, 8.0.1.
>
> I'd recommend 8.0.4 in any case, if you don't want to wait for 8.0.5 (if nobody uses condor_submit -interactive yet) - it fixes a bug in condor_ssh_to_job where disconnecting the SSH session killed the job when using cgroups.
>
> And if you're not using cgroups yet, I highly HIGHLY recommend it - it's great. Just don't put double-quotes around the cgroup name in the config file.
>
>     -Michael Pelletier.