Re: lots of luatex process/instances (ps xa| grep lua / top -----sort by memory)

["Amaël Broustet" <context@amael.net>]

On a small example : ctrl+C works, ctrl+Z leaves unkillable (either -15
or -1) luatex and texlua process. kill -9 leaves zombies.
killing the parent shell clean everything. 


Le dimanche 10 mai 2009 à 19:25 +0100, Mohamed Bana a écrit :
> I've also noticed something along those lines.  I've also found that 
> CTRL+Z/C doesn't really exit the program --- there are stale processes 
> still lying around.
> 
> What I described is general, it tends to happen across big documents.
> 
> Is this a known problem?
> 
> � Broustet wrote:
> > Dear context users,
> > at first a lot of warm thanks for help and comments on using
> > t-simpleslides.
> > 
> > On a different matter, I now have the following problem :
> > I do a lot of testing trying compiling my slides (using the following
> > command : "context essai.tex"). Sometimes, I get errors and an
> > interactive prompt that I kill with either ctrl+C or ctrl+Z (at random).
> > 
> > I noticed that my computer was swapping (2Go RAM). 
> > With "ps xa  | grep lua" I get 34 process.    
> > 
> > Using "top" and sorting by memory used the processes, I noticed 7
> > instances of luatex and 5 of texlua on the first page for a total of
> > 800MB of resident memory.
> > 
> > Did I miss something using context (I do "context essai.tex" each time
> > that I want compile changes) ?
> > 
> > "killall luatex" and kill -15 PID does nothing.
> > 
> > 
> > Best,
> > Amaël  
> > 
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