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 performance by avoiding unnecessary exit() > call. > > avoid_shut_down_if_no_input.patch: > Everytime our Alteon opens a socket for the health check, it kills a > process. Just because it don't send any data. The problem can be > easily reproduce with a telnet connection. > > cyrus-imapd-2.3.16-ignore_ECONNABORTED.patch: > If the connection is closed by the client, the process gets an ECONNABORTED > error (Connection aborted POSIX.1). This new patch catches this error.
I like the concept. I'd want to review just to make sure that all allocated resources are being correctly released - there's a certain tidyness in pulling down the process completely - locks release and file descriptors close all by themselves! But certainly the concept is sound enough assuming no leaks. Regards, Bron.
