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		pjscott on Feb 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Losing graciously If one of those scripts forgets to kill a process's children (because the process itself was supposed to handle that), and a server ends up with a bazillion orphaned processes, then it could well become your problem! This happened to me once. Never again, damn it.

jude- on Feb 15, 2014 [–]

What stopped you from spawning the daemon in a cgroup?

pjscott on Feb 15, 2014 | [–]

I didn't know about them at the time, and I wasn't the one who wrote the script that spawned it.

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