Re: FreeBSD & Linux [./fork 500 totally hangs my machine 2.1.127]

Knut Olav Platou Boehmer (knu_boeh@hig.no)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:55:19 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Simon Kirby wrote:

> Either way, the probgram is still flawed as a benchmark of any sorts as
> Linux could allow the process to run to the point where it calls sleep()
> as soon as it forks where FreeBSD may just continue to let the parent
> execute and kill the children (which is obviously going to make the
> program exit faster).

If you tried to wait for all the child processes to terminate by them
selfs, instead of killing them. What would the result be?

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