Celery tasks leave old phantomjs instances lying around that eat memory.

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Celery tasks leave old phantomjs instances lying around that eat memory. #272

Closed makmanalp closed 9 years ago

makmanalp commented 9 years ago

Workaround is killing zombies regularly for now.

makmanalp commented 9 years ago

This has to do with SoftTimeLimitExceeded being raised and not caught to exit the worker cleanly: https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/2353