What does "INFO reaped unknown pid" in the log mean?
Author: snyderpa-owlCreated Sep 23, 2022Updated Sep 9, 2026
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With cron running under supervisor at loglevel 'info' and a job that runs every 60 seconds, the supervisor log receives a new message every minute:
2022-09-23 19:40:05,839 INFO reaped unknown pid 10547 (exit status 0)
Searching the documentation for "reap" yields only one result (the changelog) with no clear explanation of why I should care that supervisor reaped an unknown pid with exit status 0.
Expectation: if there is some change I should make to my deployment, I should be able to find that in the documentation. If it means nothing to me, it should be a debug message so that I can isolate it from the interesting INFO events about service startup.
Source: Supervisor/supervisor