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Why do processes spawned by cron end up defunct?

I have some processes showing up as <defunct> in top (and ps). I've boiled things down from the …

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How do I identify and eliminate unused CSS styles from my bloated stylesheet?

I have a legacy stylesheet that is now full of unused styles. The problem is identifying the necessary from the …

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C: Exec/fork > Defunct processes

I'm want to create a lot of child processes using the fork > exec procedure. Many processes are ending very …

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How to cleanly kill subprocesses in python

We are using a python process to manage long running python subprocesses. Subprocesses occasionally need to be killed. The kill …

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What is the cleanest way to stop a python multiprocessing worker attached to a queue in an infinite loop?

I'm implementing a producer-consumer pattern in python using multiprocessing.Pool and multiprocessing.Queue. Consumers are pre-forked processes that uses gevent …

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