[pjscott]

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.

[jude-]

What stopped you from spawning the daemon in a cgroup?

[pjscott]

I didn't know about them at the time, and I wasn't the one who wrote the script that spawned it.