Orphan processes in killed NWChem 6.1.1 job


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Quote:Jwkeller Feb 14th 9:07 pm
Quote:Edoapra Feb 14th 4:12 pm
What happens if you try to kill the left-over processes? Are they in "D" state?


They are in the "R" state. Here is the "ps aux" output (keller6 is the NWChem user.)

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
keller6 6001 99.8 0.2 1262432 140092 ? R 19:25 29:12 /usr/local/nwchem/bin/nwchem input.inp
keller6 6002 99.9 0.1 1261552 125244 ? R 19:25 29:13 /usr/local/nwchem/bin/nwchem input.inp
keller6 6003 99.9 0.1 1261540 128448 ? R 19:25 29:13 /usr/local/nwchem/bin/nwchem input.inp
keller6 6004 99.9 0.1 1261540 122332 ? R 19:25 29:13 /usr/local/nwchem/bin/nwchem input.inp

I can kill the process with "kill -9 6001"


Do you still need to reboot the cluster nodes after having manually killed the leftover processes?

Edo