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by d0 4502 days ago
But also 100% not my problem :)
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pjscott 4502 days ago
If one of those scripts forgets to kill a process's children (because the process itself was supposed to handle that), and a server ends up with a bazillion orphaned processes, then it could well become your problem!

This happened to me once. Never again, damn it.

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jude- 4501 days ago
What stopped you from spawning the daemon in a cgroup?
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pjscott 4501 days ago
I didn't know about them at the time, and I wasn't the one who wrote the script that spawned it.
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