On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 12:32 PM, Kee Hinckley wrote:
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> If I have a mod_perl routine that fouls up (goes into a tight loop)
> it brings my machine completely to its knees. I'm unable to do just
> about anything, including command-escape. I've sometimes been able
> to switch windows, but never type anything or kill the server
> process. So far I've just had to reboot the machine.
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> I doubt this is a mod_perl problem specifically, it seems to me it's
> a MacOS X process priority problem. But does anyone know how to keep
> it from happening?
You are correct. As I understand it, the current version of Darwin doesn't
support "nice" so process priority can't be reassigned or controlled. We
shall see what happens in MacOS X 10.1
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