I have a maintenance job that updates a couple files on each slave. However, before the files can be updated I need to kill a process first. The problem is after the files are updated I need to spawn the process again and have it continue running after the maintenance job is complete. So I need the deadline parent process to spawn a completely independent process that will run after the parent process has terminated. Everything I have tried so far has failed (os.startfile, subprocess.popen, processutils.spawnprocess, etc). Is this operation possible with deadline?
I am running into the same issue. Did you resolve this?
I’m trying to spawn an independent, persistent process through Deadline (via Houdini PDG / python). The process launches, but as soon as the task completes, the launched process terminates.
I too have tried many different ways to launch the process independently without success.
Thank you.