On Jun 23, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Mike Dubman <mi...@dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> btw, i think now, when parent process is killed before child, OS makes child > as "<defunct>" which stick around for good. The grandparent should inherit the child. If the grandparent then does not wait(2) on the child, then the child will remain a zombie / defunct. So in our specific case, this behavior will depend on what the parent process of mpirun is and whether it is waiting on child processes appropriately. -Dave
