[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kee Hinckley) wrote:
>At 6:58 PM -0500 8/7/01, Charles Eicher wrote:
>>You are correct. As I understand it, the current version of Darwin
>>doesn't support "nice" so process priority can't be reassigned or
>>controlled. We shall see what happens in MacOS X 10.1
>
>But "nice" isn't going to fix it anyway, you don't really want to
>nice your web server. It seems to me that there's a resource
>scheduling bug somewhere in the kernel. There's no way that one
>process should be able to bring the entire machine to its knees.
No, but lots of them together can. My favorite bit of malicious Perl
code, which I've never had the courage to try, is "fork while 1". =)
Nevertheless, perhaps it's really Aqua or the Finder or Terminal that's
misbehaving, not Apache or mod_perl. Several times I've seen
Terminal.app seem to freeze for up to about 5 minutes, then recover (or
succumb to my force quit). After that the machine's fine.
BTW, in your original message you mention "command-escape". Just want
to make sure you know that force-quit is actually command-option-escape.
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