Re: What does the error "Process <URL> not running" mean?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 06:55:11 +0100
> 
> > Isn't that the timeout till the other side closes the connection?
> 
> That's certainly possible.  At least I can say the following:
> 
> 1. I've retrieved 5 urls
> 2. but got about 9 network processes (so multiple for some hosts)
> 3. and the processes stayed open for different times where the
>    difference was more that the period between retrievals.
> 
> 2 seems to be caused due to redirection, i.e., I fetched the http site
> which redirected to the https site.
> 
> 3 could be that the other sides have different timeouts.  Some
> connections disappear after maybe 30 seconds, others survive 5 minutes
> or even longer.  Eventually, they'll all disappear.

I would try using 'netstat' to display the state of each of these
connections during the time they stay open while you expect them to
die.  If you see them in shutdown handshake, then you'll know.