Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:44:13 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Speeding up exit(2)? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903151843090.41920@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20090316023903.T95588@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20090315120024.E004210656DB@hub.freebsd.org> <20090316023903.T95588@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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> Apart from having to close each tab/window, freeing all its resources, > bits of the executable itself need to be paged in to do various things, > which may need to page out some more. What's amazing is that it can do > that for several minutes, coming out unscathed when it finally quits! > > (extreme example, but a true story from a wild ebay session yesterday :) perfect example of crappy software - unfortunately most todays web browsers are coded by people that don't spend even few minutes understanding how OS works.
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