On Dec 20, 2003, at 12:58 AM, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
Dan Anderson wrote:
I'm creating an app that uses forks in a number of places to do things
quicker. Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of accidentally fork
bombing
my box.
This is a pretty good sign that you are over-using the fork command.
E
Dan Anderson wrote:
> I'm creating an app that uses forks in a number of places to do things
> quicker. Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of accidentally fork bombing
> my box.
This is a pretty good sign that you are over-using the fork command.
Efficiently designed programs can usually run pret
On Dec 19, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Dan Anderson wrote:
[..]
I'll do something dumb, like fork
in a loop while $number_forks < $fork_this_many.
[..]
You might want to have a WAY different strategy!
Remember both sides of the fork get a copy of
the code space - and as such the first f
Dan Anderson wrote:
> I'm creating an app that uses forks in a number of places to do things
> quicker. Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of accidentally
> fork bombing
> my box. Is there any way I can run a perl process (even if
> it's a Linux
> command) so that it wont eat up all available reso
drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:55 AM, Dan Anderson wrote:
> [..]
> > I'm creating an app that uses forks in a number of places to do things
> > quicker. Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of accidentally fork
> > bombing
> > my box.
>
> I'm not sure I get this phrase '
On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:55 AM, Dan Anderson wrote:
[..]
I'm creating an app that uses forks in a number of places to do things
quicker. Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of accidentally fork
bombing
my box.
I'm not sure I get this phrase 'fork bombing' to begin with,
do you mean that you wind up fo
nope, looks like it's no safety net for CPU or anything, just
compartmentalized namespace and such.
-Tom Kinzer
-Original Message-
From: Tom Kinzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:27 AM
To: Dan Anderson; Perl Beginners
Subject: RE: Preventing Accidentally
use safe ?
just a guess if it will work for this problem. check it out.
-Tom Kinzer
-Original Message-
From: Dan Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 8:56 AM
To: Perl Beginners
Subject: Preventing Accidentally Fork Bombing My Box
I'm creating an app that
