On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 10:39 +0000, andrea crotti wrote: > I have very long processes to spawn which I want to lauch as separate > processes (and communicate with ZeroMQ), but now the problem is that the > forked process appears in "ps" with the same name as the launcher > process. > This is a simplified version of what I'm trying to do: > def long_sleep(): > sys.argv[:] = [sys.argv[0]] + ['daemon', 'arguments'] > time.sleep(20) > so both the sys.argv reassignment don't work so far, any other way to > fix this? > On the real machine I also get zombie processes, but on my machine I > can't reproduce this, and would also be nice to fix that..
The Python module "procname" allows you change the process name so you can see it in ps, top, etc... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
