Gophers - Trying to learn Go (I'm a hobbyist) and have a fundamental net/http question. I have a web server running with a web page set to refresh every 2 seconds. I have 3 different browsers making webserver GET requests. Each browser's refresh is spinning up a new goroutine on the server, right? And that leaves the preceding goroutine started by that browser's GET dead/unused going forward, right?
I'm watching the memory usage of the webserver and it is steadily increasing though it does seem to level off after a while. Is the GC taking care of removing the unused goroutines and that is why I'm seeing the memory use increases start to level off? If I stop all the browsers would the GC gobble up all the now-useless goroutines and memory use for the webserver would drop back to nominal? At one point when I was tracking down one race condition (out of 839 reported), the race output showed "goroutine #29316". Good grief! I fixed all the race conditions reported. If I set the page refreshes to a larger number, such as 5 minutes, would the GC gobble up the unused goroutines fast enough that I wouldn't see much increase in memory use? Or am I thinking about this all wrong? TIA, Bucky -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/d2903306-e0b0-4e7e-a035-ff14b3c64c52%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
