gcj/freenet status 20020504

[Andrew Haley]

Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > Goran Thyni wrote:
 > 
 > >I though it was leakage in the node itself, but after a little investigation
 > >I saw some very large processes - a few each of "addr2line" and "c++filt" -
 > >which must have been started by fred.
 > >
 > 
 > Yes, these are used for stack trace printing - see name-finder.cc and 
 > java/lang/natThrowable.cc. Is something in freenet calling 
 > Throwable.printStackTrace() a lot?
 > 
 > > Those processes also remained after
 > >to node where killed and had to be shut down manually.
 > >
 > 
 > Thats very odd. Child processes should get killed when the parent dies 
 > no matter what.

What will cause that to happen?  If the child process blocks on
output, when eventually its parent exits it will be owned by exec
which will patiently wait for it to terminate.

It sounds to me like "addr2line" and "c++filt" are buggy.  There's no
reason they should be large.

Andrew.