[ros-users] removing dead nodes from roscore registration

[Ken Conley]

Not sure I fully understand the question. rosnode cleanup removes the
registration from the master. This effectively prevents any new
subscribers from connecting to the publisher, but will not disturb
existing connections. It does nothing else to the node. rosnode kill
attempts to kill a node, but it may not work on unresponsive nodes.

FYI: we're working on extending roslaunch to provide the ability to
use the roslaunch infrastructure to kill nodes on remote machines.

 - Ken

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:31 AM, koen buys <koen.buys at mech.kuleuven.be> wrote:
> What if a node doens't respond but still is publishing?
>
> On 13 April 2010 16:49, Brian Gerkey <gerkey at willowgarage.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Rosen Diankov <rosen.diankov at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > If processes immediately die without properly calling the ros shutdown
>> > methods, the node will stay registered with the core forever. the
>> > result is that the rxgraph slowly gets cluttered with dead nodes and
>> > makes it really inconvenient. we've tried 'rosnode kill', but that
>> > doesn't seem to un-register the node. because we want to keep a
>> > roscore constantly running on every robot, we cannot just restart the
>> > roscore....
>>
>> hi Rosen,
>>
>> You can try the semi-hidden 'cleanup' feature of rosnode:
>>  rosnode cleanup
>> It will ping all nodes, then offer to delete entries from the master
>> that correspond to the nodes that don't respond.
>>
>>        brian.
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