https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-MPI-Library/python-processes-hanging-around-for-ever/m-p/875397#M1850 mpdallexit should clean up and make ready for a fresh start with mpdboot or mpirun. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:29:27 GMT TimP 2008-06-11T09:29:27Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-MPI-Library/python-processes-hanging-around-for-ever/m-p/875396#M1849 Hi everyone.<BR /><BR />We have a small cluster running mpi version 3.0.033. On a lot of the nodes there are the python processes that are hanging around from jobs run up to a year ago<BR /><BR /><I>%ps<BR />cs47480 32683 1 0 2007 ? 00:00:01 python /usr/local/mpi-3.0.033-intel/bin64/mpd.py -h shiva004 -p 43110 --ifhn=172.19.1.1 --ncpus=1 --myhost=shiva001 --myip=172.19.1.1 -e<BR /><BR /></I>What causes these processes not to exit when the job is finished?<BR /><BR />Is there any script that comes with mpi that I can run to clean these up?<BR /><BR />thanks<BR />ads<BR /> Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:10:08 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-MPI-Library/python-processes-hanging-around-for-ever/m-p/875396#M1849 adam_mitchell 2008-06-11T02:10:08Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-MPI-Library/python-processes-hanging-around-for-ever/m-p/875397#M1850 mpdallexit should clean up and make ready for a fresh start with mpdboot or mpirun. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:29:27 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-MPI-Library/python-processes-hanging-around-for-ever/m-p/875397#M1850 TimP 2008-06-11T09:29:27Z