On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Pierre-Yves BONNETAIN wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > you'll get a better idea of the problem running strace (or truss)
> > against the server. in any case, you should avoid any code that's
> > forking a process, since it's throwing performance out the window.
> Is there a 'nice way' (meaning, a patch or manual change I can do to those
> modules) to prevent forking or, rather, replace it by stg else that gets me the
> same thing ? I can spend (a lot of) time looking for system() and
> backticks in the modules I use, but if I need the functionnality how can I
> 'correct' the code of those modules ?
I don't know of a tool to help with this, you just need to keep an eye on
things with strace or truss and weed out the forking code.
