The problem with check_if_running("ollama")

[Jessen-Li]

In chapter 7.8,

def check_if_running(process_name):
       running = False
       for proc in psutil.process_iter(["name"]):
              if process_name in proc.info["name"]:
                   running = True
                   break
       return running

On my MacOS 15, the following is the return of ps aux | grep ollama:

junli            71128   0.0  0.0 410724368   1440 s021  S+    8:07PM   0:00.00 grep ollama
junli            65884   0.0  0.4 412561808  88096   ??  S     7:08PM   1:56.04 /Applications/Ollama.app/Contents/Resources/ollama serve

But check_if_running('ollma') returns False. I don't know whether it works fine in Windows/Linux. It probably means that in MacOS, the process name does not contain 'ollama'. My method is:

def is_ollama_running():
    import psutil
    for proc in psutil.process_iter(["cmdline"]):
        if proc.info["cmdline"] is not None:
            cmdline = " ".join(proc.info["cmdline"])
            if "ollama serve" in cmdline:
                return True
    return False

It returns true.

Another issue is that print("Ollama running:", check_if_running("ollama")) calls check_if_running again, which is redundant. print("Ollama is running") is more concise.

[rasbt]

Hi there and thanks for the comment. I think the issue may be the little typo here perhaps?

But check_if_running('ollma') returns False

I.e., it should be "ollama" instead of "ollma"

Hopefully that works!

[Jessen-Li]

Yes. You're right. My slip.