how to kill zombie processes created by multiprocessing module?

Question

I\'m very new to multiprocessing module. And I just tried to create the following: I have one process that\'s job is to get message from RabbitMQ and pass it to

Answer 1

A couple of things:

1. Make sure the parent joins its children, to avoid zombies. See Python Multiprocessing Kill Processes

2. You can check whether a child is still running with the is_alive() member function. See http://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html#multiprocessing.Process