Thanks Jeremy for the information.
On 10/16/07, Jeremy Pereira <jeremyp@jeremyp.net> wrote:
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>
> On 12 Oct 2007, at 16:58, JfK Viper wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I see that when I run svnserve in demon mode using svnserve -d -
> > r , and do ps -ef | grep svnserve , it shows numerous processess/
> > threads related to this svnserve.
> >
> >
> > I see that there is one parent process and numerous processess/
> > threads generated to help client access the server. I want my
> > server to be clean and just want to see only the parent PID and not
> > others.
> >
>
> You can clean up your output of ps with the following:
>
> ps -ef | grep svnserve | head -1
>
> Except in a few edge cases that will probably give you the parent
> process. :-)
>
> Other than that, I don't understand why you're bothered about it.
> The fork model is the traditional Unix Way and many daemon processes
> use it. You can make your ps -ef output ultra clean if you boot the
> server in single user mode, but that doesn't mean you should do it.
>
> > How do i do that? I see some options like using -T but i was
> > wondering why is it not default? Will it impact performance ? Are
> > there any other solutions to it ?
>
> That depends on the implementation of threads. On Windows, using
> threads makes quite a big difference because spawning new processes
> is quite expensive. I couldn't tell you about Solaris but I would
> guess a small performance improvement with using threads.
>
> >
> >
> > Specs: Solaris 10, 64 bit, Subversion 1.4.3.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
>
>
Received on Tue Oct 16 17:28:56 2007