Re: Troublesome app when scaling it up, how to proceed?

• Subject: Re: Troublesome app when scaling it up, how to proceed?
• From: "Gerben Wierda" <email@hidden>
• Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:12:51 +0200 (CEST)
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> Am 25.10.2007 um 16:49 schrieb Gerben Wierda:
>
>> could zombie pipes be created when apps like tar do not explicitely
>> close
>> stdout/stderr before exiting?
>
> In the case I had to debug the autorelease pool wasn't drained when
> the main app was in the background. The NSTasks were not released and
> the assiciated NSPipes neither, which lead to filehandle exhaustion
> after processing around 100 files with four subtaks á 2 handles.
>
> Debugged with lsof and ObjectAlloc, the fix I described AFAIR here.

Interesting. Would that happen too when my process is still in the
foreground (which it is) and the event loop (and thus autorelease
effectuation) is still running periodically?

G

>
> Regards,
> 	Tom_E
>
>


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