epmd is how Riak nodes find each other. It is extremely lightweight and harmless to run after the Riak node has stopped. Killing it is fine, but is not strictly necessary.
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:31 PM, David Lowell <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to understand better why '/etc/init.d/riak stop' stops riak, > but the 'epmd' daemon continues to run. I would have hoped that when I > administratively stop riak on a node that all its various cogs would stop > turning. > > Furthermore, I'm not clear on how the lifecycle of epmd is controled. Is it > started by any Erlang process that runs, and never stopped? > > I would appreciate any insights folks could offer. Thanks! > > Dave > > -- > Dave Lowell > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > -- Sean Cribbs <[email protected]> Software Engineer Basho Technologies, Inc. http://basho.com/ _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
