itaps-parallel Orphan processes beware

[Tim Tautges]

Hi all,
   The load problem on the mesh machine was due to orphan processes not 
being killed with a job.  So, if you're running a job and it dies or you 
have to kill it, make sure the processes all get killed (ps -ef |grep 
<username>) - note, those processes don't show up in the output of 'top'.

Also, please keep the jobs to 4 procs most of the time, or check with 
others if you need larger jobs.

Thanks.

- tim

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