Jos Visser writes:
> I must say that I think calling the maintaining of the nzombies
> counter "bloat" is exaggerating.
>
> If I do a zombie count in userland every 5 minutes, the number of
> cycles this is going to burn is tremendously larger than performing
> the count inline in exit().
If everybody needed to constantly monitor zombies, you would
be correct. It is more efficient to do things your way...
Normal systems don't have such a high zombie population,
or maybe you are just less tolerant of a few zombies.
Millions of Linux users would have to spend CPU time so
that you can more quickly count zombies.
This isn't fair.
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