> You think these mess up our tests at all N? Theoritically, no. But if they consume memory & CPU it at the very least does not help us.
> Or are these just the zombies sometimes reported in our test output on jenkins? Yes, it gives a wrong warning on our builds. May be it's just an exception, I don't look at all failures ;-) > You have admin privs on jenkins Nicolas? I can add. Yes, please. It could be useful sometimes may be. > Selective kill seems like good idea if jenkins is not doing it (long as we don't kill jenkins itself --- that'd make us popular... smile) May be Jenkins does only kill -15, I don't know. Or may be nothing. The root cause is more or less a surefire issue imho, it should get rid of these process alone.
