<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m trying to get to the root of zombie latex processes. I have to manually kill long running latex processes. I’m unable to determine while the processes aren’t dying.<div class="">Here’s the process tree. As you can see below the latex word count.tex process has been running for 2days. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(131, 148, 150); background-color: rgb(1, 43, 54);" class=""> /bin/sh /usr/aps/eduser/complooknew -m BS12877 -k -l -h</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(131, 148, 150); background-color: rgb(1, 43, 54);" class="">carlene 10298 9566 0 Aug19 ? 00:00:00 \_ /opt/apps/eop-cmdline/current/ruby/length-check/scripts/lengthcheck.rb </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(131, 148, 150); background-color: rgb(1, 43, 54);" class="">carlene 10301 10298 0 Aug19 ? 00:00:00 \_ sh /opt/apps/eop-cmdline/current/ruby/length-check/scripts/wordcount.sh prcomp.tex</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(131, 148, 150); background-color: rgb(1, 43, 54);" class="">carlene 10306 10301 99 Aug19 ? 2-10:16:23 \_ /aps/texlive/current/bin/x86_64-linux/latex wordcount.tex\csname ?\endcsname</div></div></body></html>