At Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:56:26 +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote:
Subject: Re: [patches] avoid unless exit()
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:28:57AM +0100, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On AIX 5.3 (20CPU/96GB), the cost of process restart is very expensive.
> > These
> > patches improve perfor
Could anyone explain the meaning of lines like:
Mar 26 00:49:50 util6 sync_client[31645]: Discarding: 3082
()
I have literally millions of these in my maillog (occasionally with
flags between the parentheses and rarely other text in place of the
zeroes) and am wondering
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:30:42AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> indeed, and memory "frees" itself at exit time too, and calling free() a
> whole lot of times on a sure path to exit() is a pedantic waste of time
> and code (and thus maintenance).
OTOH properly releasing memory on exit paths makes
