Problem with running external process

[Dan Sommers]

On 23 Jan 2006 04:33:17 -0800,
"ToMasz" <t_mo_info at o2.pl> wrote:

> ...  how much should I increase these values to allow infinite
> executions of external process?

That sounds like a bad idea.  Long before you've run an infinite number
of processes, a real resource will be exhausted.

You are probably creating zombie processes (you can check with /bin/ps).
To get rid of them, execute os.waitpid(-1, os.WNOHANG) (or something
similar to that) periodically from within your python script.  Possibly
execute that statement repeatedly until it indicates that there are no
more zombies.  A good time/place to do this is right before you start
another process.

Regards,
Dan

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