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But also 100% not my problem :)

• pjscott 13y 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.
  • jude- 13y ago
    What stopped you from spawning the daemon in a cgroup?
    • pjscott 13y ago
      I didn't know about them at the time, and I wasn't the one who wrote the script that spawned it.