Hello,
I wanted to get an advice on the following issue.
We have several test configurations with Appium servers running constantly in 24/7 mode. Unfortunately, on all platforms Appium probably leaks – after a couple of days of intensive testing it eats all available memory, so the system becomes unresponsive.
To overcome this issue, I start Appium with a Python command
AppiumPID = subprocess.Popen(appium_cmd_line, cwd=my_work_dir).pid
and restart it between the tests:
p = psutil.Process(AppiumPID)
p.terminate()
p.wait()
AppiumPID = subprocess.Popen(appium_cmd_line, cwd=my_work_dir).pid
This method works perfectly for Windows and Android, but fails with testing on real iOS devices. Appium runs additional processes such as iproxy, idevicesyslog and xcodebuild that survive this termination and prevent the restarted Appium server from operating properly.
I tried killing these processes independenly from Appium, but it turned out to be unreliable: eventually I am getting some of them still running in the background and hindering the tests.
So the question is: how to restart Appium programmatically “in the right way” with all these subprocesses? I think if I close the Appium shell window, they all terminate, but not 100% sure.
Thanks.