On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 4:34 AM, duncan smith <duncan@invalid.invalid> wrote: > > def _execute(command): > # shell=True security hazard? > p = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, > stdout=subprocess.PIPE, > stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, > close_fds=True) > output = p.stdout.read() > p.stdin.close() > p.stdout.close() > #p.communicate() > if output: > print output
Do you ever wait() these processes? If not, you might be leaving a whole lot of zombies behind, which will eventually exhaust your process table. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
