On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:45:08PM -0500, Doug McNaught wrote:
> listas@lozano.eti.br writes:
>
> > I can't imagine how a web server cannot be affected by apps creating
> > threads and/or proccesses. Think about memmory use, resource
> > pooling, syncronization issues, ... remember a child process ot
> > thread prevents the termination of its parent (which may become a
> > zombie on Unix systems, and a zombie still holds its open file
> > handles).
>
> This is wrong. Parents *can* terminate with running children, and
> zombie processes take up no resources other than a process table slot.
Additional zombie processes are automatically cleared when their parent dies
(they are reparented to init, which then takes care of it).
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> (... have gone from d-i being barely usable even by its developers
> anywhere, to being about 20% done. Sweet. And the last 80% usually takes
> 20% of the time, too, right?) -- Anthony Towns, debian-devel-announce