It is me again. Well I noticed that the change I suggested about Tcl_Finalize did not make it into CVS HEAD.
If it doesn't go there, I am afraid I will have to anyhow introduce it myself in my distribution. I need to have a working system. With that call still in, the service can't (CANNOT) be stopped gracefully. This is a matter of testing: Take the system, make it run with a real OpenACS based application (how about ]po[, or xowiki..) and see how it works and see how it interacts with the system. Does it start? Does it run? Does it stop properly? For the time being in Windows 64 that function needs to be out. Thanks a lot, Maurizio Thank you, Maurizio From: AOLserver Discussion [mailto:AOLSERVER@LISTSERV.AOL.COM] On Behalf Of Gustaf Neumann Sent: 06 August 2011 10:28 To: AOLSERVER@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Aolserver Progress - Some few examples.... Maurizio, Tcl_Finalize() is supposed to work, and if it does now work something is still broken in the windows version. Omitting Tcl_Finalize() is removeing the symptom, not the cause. It is not unlikely that something else will have the same problem due to this cause. When Tcl_Finalize() is not run, the registered exit handlers are not executed. How serious this is depends on the exit handlers. You are right, that the "memory leak" does not matter due to the shutdown. The difference is like between a graceful and an ungraceful shutdown. -gustaf On 05.08.11 16:29, Maurizio Martignano wrote: Dear Gustav, I understand your concerns about Tcl_Finalize. but it is called just when the process/service is about to end. Once it ends the OS takes charges and releases the process/service resources (memory included). You can make an easy test.. Have Aolserver / nsd running on a big application. observe the OS resources given to the process and released when I finishes. Do this twice: with Tcl_Finalize on and Tcl_Finalize commented out. And see if you can find any difference. Ciao, Maurizio -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <lists...@listserv.aol.com> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <lists...@listserv.aol.com> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
