Re: Inappropriate kernel limits!
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- Subject: [mg96304] Re: [mg96268] Inappropriate kernel limits!
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:20:35 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-to: jfultz at wolfram.com
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:54:39 -0500 (EST), Scott Morrison wrote: > I'm running a Mathematica program that is crashing badly (more on that > later); I have to kill the processes (on OSX) by hand using Activity > Monitor or the terminal, as the frontend becomes completely > unresponsive. > > Afterwards, however, when I try to restart Mathematica (or the old > copy of v6 I have around), I get the message "The 2-user limit on this > license has been reached." I've carefully checked through the running > processes and made sure there are no lurking kernels. Rebooting the > computer solves the problem, but this is extremely unacceptable! > > Can someone tell me how to fix this problem? I'm really annoyed. > > thanks, > Scott Morrison If the processes are completely terminated, then they should completely free= the resources used for process counting. However, if any vestige of the process= remains, such as if the process were to become a zombie process, then that= can't be guaranteed. This is my best guess as to what's happening on your= system. If that's the case, then it's probable that using Terminal.app to kill the application from the Unix shell is the only option that will work (short of= rebooting, of course). E.g., something like... ps -efwww | grep Math kill -9 pid where pid is the number in the second column of the ps output. As to why this might be happening, I couldn't comment without understanding= what's leading to the crashes you're experiencing. I can say that I haven't= seen any common bugs which leave this kind of process debris for many, many= years now, but there are quite possibly uncommon bugs that I'm unaware of. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc.