From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 6 14:54: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pianosa.catch22.org (pianosa.catch22.org [64.81.48.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B6337B422 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:53:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by pianosa.catch22.org (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F3C7A2FA; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:53:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:53:54 -0800 From: Danny Howard To: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Baby(1) Message-ID: <20020406145354.D17676@pianosa.catch22.org> References: <200204060500.g3650sM84275@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200204060500.g3650sM84275@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:00:14PM -0800 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:00:14PM -0800, Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group wrote: > BABY is initiated when one parent process polls another server > process through a socket connection (BSD) or through pipes in the > System V implementation. BABY runs at a low priority for approximately > 40 weeks then terminates with heavy system load. Most systems require > constant monitoring when BABY reaches its final stages of execution. Man pages suck. Or, is it naming conventions. Baby terminates at forty weeks? More like it takes forty weeks to fork and finally begin consuming some serious resources. But, well, anyways ... -d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message