-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/2010 07:24 PM, David Bolen wrote: > I previously wrote: > >> I suspect the problem may be on the "identify which process to kill" >> rather than the "kill it" part, but it's definitely going to take time >> to figure that out for sure. While the approach kill_python takes is >> much more appropriate, since we don't currently have multiple builds >> running simultaneously (and for me the machines are dedicated as build >> slaves, so I won't be having my own python_d), a more blanket kill >> operation is safe enough. > > For anyone interested, I caught (well, Georg Brandl caught it first) a > case on Saturday with some hung processes on the Win7 buildbot that I > was able to verify kill_python failed to kill. This was after having > a few instances where it did work fine. > > I've created issue 10641 to track. I also noticed another recent > issue (10136) that is also related to kill_python missing processes, > but given that it works in my case some of the time, and is always > called via the same path, not sure if that can be my problem. > > I also realized that some fraction of the other cases I have seen > might not have truly been an issue, since from what I can see > kill_python is only run at the start of a build process, so hung > processes (even killable ones) from a prior build hang around until > the next build takes place. They can however, interfere with the svn > checkout so things never get to the point of using kill_python. So > maybe kill_python's use should be moved to the clean stage?
Maybe belt-and-suspenders it in both places. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkz+RuYACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ58OgCgiMs1JAdFjkOGxrJ3X3nB1k18 iKcAoMCP+MYumDe0r/XkZr29e7loACxP =wrWe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
