The current EC2 backend is able to create instances on a cloud and also
terminate them, but termination happen only when a `free()` method is called
for an application which is running on a VM which is not used by any other job.
This introduces the possibility that a VM is created by a script which never
calls the `free()` method, maybe because the script is killed and the session
abruptly removed with `rm -r` instead of calling `gsession abort/delete`
command.
We need a new gc3pie command that may be used by an user to check if some stale
VM instance has been left running on an EC2 resource, and terminate it if
necessary.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by antonio....@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2013 at 11:10
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
antonio....@gmail.com
on 22 Feb 2013 at 11:10