so many processes

[Göran Krampe]

Hey!

Phil at Work wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've seen this answered in the archive a couple of months back, however 
> the solution isn't working for me.
> 
> I have around 3000 processes that appear to be defunct timers - ie i've 
> shutdown magma, thrown away the magma directory, started up squeak 
> again, and... many thousands of magma processes - at one stage around 
> 5000 processes!

First of all I do think the *idea* is to have "lots" of Processes - but 
I am not sure how many there should be, according to Chris.

I am currently trying out running a separate Magma server with Gjallar 
(seems to work fine now) and I have 1000-1400 (Process allInstances 
size) in the Seaside image.

> still many thousands of processes.
> 
> Does anyone know how to clean up the mess?

I think Igor and the others refer to the earlier seen bug that started 
spawning Processes recursively until your image started feeling like 
glue. I haven't seen that bug in quite some time so I am not sure that 
is what you are seeing. And it was quite hard to break too if it grew 
too far.

regards, Göran