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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:00:36 -0800
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Subject: Re: subprocess.Popen strange bhaviour
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Mac Smith <macsmith.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using subprocess.Popen to start a movie ripping command HandBrakeCLI=
. My server is 64bit ubuntu server and has 8 cores. When the command starts=
 it uses all 8 cores upto 80%-100% and works fine, but after 270 seconds th=
e cpu usage of all the cores drops to 0% - 1%. I tried this many time this =
happens exactly after 270 seconds. Is there some predefined timeout??

Please post the part of your code that uses subprocess.Popen().

Cheers,
Chris