nova-all fork bomb

[Rick Harris]

When I Ctrl-C out of nova-all, at random times it ceases to terminate the processes and begins an endless cycle of forking off processes.

2013-03-07 23:47:34.357 9170 AUDIT nova.service [-] Starting conductor node (version 2013.1)
2013-03-07 23:47:34.372 9170 INFO nova.service [-] Parent process has died unexpectedly, exiting
2013-03-07 23:47:34.381 7396 INFO nova.service [-] Child 9170 exited with status 1
2013-03-07 23:47:34.400 7396 INFO nova.service [-] Started child 9171
2013-03-07 23:47:34.406 9171 AUDIT nova.service [-] Starting conductor node (version 2013.1)
2013-03-07 23:47:34.421 9171 INFO nova.service [-] Parent process has died unexpectedly, exiting
2013-03-07 23:47:34.430 7396 INFO nova.service [-] Child 9171 exited with status 1
2013-03-07 23:47:34.431 7396 INFO nova.service [-] Forking too fast, sleeping
2013-03-07 23:47:35.451 7396 INFO nova.service [-] Started child 9172
2013-03-07 23:47:35.457 9172 AUDIT nova.service [-] Starting conductor node (version 2013.1)
2013-03-07 23:47:35.479 9172 INFO nova.service [-] Parent process has died unexpectedly, exiting
2013-03-07 23:47:35.491 7396 INFO nova.service [-] Child 9172 exited with status 1
2013-03-07 23:47:35.510 7396 INFO nova.service [-] Started child 9173
2013-03-07 23:47:35.516 9173 AUDIT nova.service [-] Starting conductor node (version 2013.1)
2013-03-07 23:47:35.530 9173 INFO nova.service [-] Parent process has died unexpectedly, exiting
2013-03-07 23:47:35.540 7396 INFO nova.service [-] Child 9173 exited with status 1
2013-03-07 23:47:35.540 7396 INFO nova.service [-] Forking too fast, sleeping

[Russell Bryant (russellb)]

This seems like it should be Low priority since nova-all isn't really something most people (anyone?) would be running in production.

[Joshua Harlow (harlowja)]

Are there docs somewhere that say people shouldn't use nova-all in production? If not then how are people supposed to know they shouldn't be using this in production, and if its not recommended to use nova-all why does it exist to confuse people in the first place? Some sick joke on those poor people that fall for trying to use it? Ha.

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

Closing as opinion, nova-all really isn't something we even talk about any more