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<p dir="auto">On 14 Sep 2016, at 16:17, Matt Neuburg wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><div dir="auto">Could this possibly be your script?
</div></blockquote><div dir="auto">That process in Activity Monitor is ruby. After a couple of hours of work I can end up with several copies of ruby in Activity Monitor, and that's when the fans get so loud that I realize something is up.
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<p dir="auto">But your script is written in ruby, right? Given that you can close the HTML output window, it does sound like your script is the one sticking around.</p>
<p dir="auto">Do you use threads or fork in your script?</p>
<p dir="auto">You should be able to see what parameters are given to the ruby process that stuck around, perhaps not in Activity Monitor, but from a terminal try run:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Another very useful command is <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">pstree</code> but this is an optional install (e.g. <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">brew install pstree</code>).</p>
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<div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div dir="auto">What I'm wondering is whether something changed about how the ruby script runner works. m.
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<p dir="auto">I don’t see anything that could cause this.</p>
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