Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 23:46:11 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 'dead' binary stays 'dead'? Message-ID: <199610100446.XAA08260@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199610100435.OAA17545@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 10, 96 02:05:39 pm
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> > Argh. Not what I wanted to know 8( > I do get bad news once in a while also. Note that it CAN be hardware, but could be an errant driver, VM system, anywhere in the kernel. > > > We all need to keep an eye on the problem... This is the first time that > > I have heard of it -- but doesn't mean that it isn't there :-)... > > Would it be possible to have the memory reclaimed immediately if the program > is killed by an unhandled signal? Generally speaking one wouldn't expect > that would be a situation one would optimise for, and it would perhaps > improve robustness in cases such as this... > That is actually an interesting idea!!! John
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