PVS floating license

I don't understand the question. The license will only be consumed if a PVS job is running; if you want to "kill the license", all you have to do is kill the job... (the licensing system really does not hang on to licenses once jobs have finished - if you see this in my experience is because something really is still running).

Andrew

PVS session got crashed and   job was still running. Later it became the defunct process . 

Finally i was able to kill it by using parent process ID. 

Thank you.

PVS session got crashed and   job was still running. Later it became the defunct process . 

Finally i was able to kill it by using parent process ID. 

Thank you.

Take a look at the lmremove command (https://media.3ds.com/support/simulia/public/flexlm108/EndUser/chap7.htm#wp919200).

However, lmremove is the wrong way to solve this problem (and should only be used with caution; it may also be restricted at some sites too). It's not a defunct process that's the problem (since they consume no resources other than a slot in the process table), more the fact that the parent process was still running. That's what should be killed, and doing that would cause the license to be released.

Regards,

Andrew.

Depending on the way in which the process is killed, it might not be able to release the license properly, so that the license will only become available again after a timeout period. With the lmremove command, the license can be made available immediately in such a situation.

Frank,

I find this very surprising. In my experience, no matter how the process exits (even with "kill -9" which cannot be caught by a process to detect its own death) the license server always releases the license because the port is closed. I have not seen any need to use lmremove to remove a stuck license for something that has truly exited in many, many years. I don't recall any recent cases where we have needed to suggest that this is used for this purpose.

Regards,

Andrew.