[erlang-questions] Who is killing my process?

[Rapsey]

Are you updating your code? Processes are killed when they're running old
code and it gets updated.


Sergej

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Mihai Balea <mihai@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In one of my systems I have a bunch of worker processes that are spawned on
> demand using a simple_one_for_one supervisor. Occasionally, one of the
> workers dies and the supervisor reports the reason as "killed".  To my
> knowledge, that means some external entity is sending that process a kill
> signal, the problem is I am not able to figure out where it comes from.
> There is no place in my code that calls exit(Pid, kill). Tracing on the
> supervisor's shutdown functions show that they are not called. Is there any
> way one can tell who is killing the process?
>
> Thanks,
> Mihai
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