On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:36:57PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > I was just poking around with gdb, started like this: > > seq -w 10000 > exp > gdb --args ./sort -S 1k exp > > my jaw hit the floor when I saw the 500+ gzip zombies > left hanging while I'm at a breakpoint in merge.
I'll try doing that when I get a chance to see why it's such a high number. There's technically no limit to the number of processes it could fork, but it should keep the number of zombies down to about two. I suppose it's possible that it just hasn't gotten a chance to clean them up since you hit a breakpoint, but these tests show that you were right all along and we should be avoiding the *need* for fork. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
