gcj/freenet status 20020504
Andrew Haley
aph@cambridge.redhat.com
Tue May 7 08:58:00 GMT 2002
=?iso-8859-1?Q?G=F6ran?= Thyni writes:
> I'm out of town so I can just speculated until I have an oppotunity
> to investigate things closer
>
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:28:48PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > 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.
>
> More patient than me, :-)
> I killed them manually.
> They propabably waits for something from their dead father,
> I would guess that an "out of memory" exception kills fred
> and leaves his children orphaned.
That's possible. Once the system runs out of memory it's hard to
terminate cleanly.
> > It sounds to me like "addr2line" and "c++filt" are buggy. There's no
> > reason they should be large.
>
> At least addr2line is working against fred's pid file the /proc file system.
> If it maps the process, addr2line itself will be very large since
> fred is large himself.
addr2line doesn't map the process, just the executable file. But
indeed, that could be large.
Andrew.
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