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:On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:35:17PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
:
:> It's important to release resources as early as possible, so zombied
:> processes don't run the machine out of memory if a parent forgets to
:> reap its children.
:
:I've found one other reason for releasing resources early. For
:example the vrele of a zombie process' text vnode is done by the
:process which reaps that zombie. If you can make the vrele block
:then the parent will block.
:
:I've seen this happen with NFS bugs, where init has got stuck in
:a "vmopar" and ended up blocking forever. The machine runs out of
:processes relatively quickly once init can't clear up zombies.
:
:I've been using the following patch at home, which moves the
:vrele from wait in the parent to exit in the child. I wonder
:if it is worth committing? (The clearing of p_textvp is to
:stop ps and friends tripping up over a half free vnode - I'm
:not sure if it is necessary).
:
: David.
That's a very good reason, and your patch looks fine. Do you
want me to do a quick double-check of it and commit it to
-current (and -stable a few days later) ? I think releasing the
text vnode in the child is absolutely the best way to do it.
-Matt
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