[#27380] [Bug #2553] Fix pthreads slowness by eliminating unnecessary sigprocmask calls — Dan Peterson <redmine@...>

Bug #2553: Fix pthreads slowness by eliminating unnecessary sigprocmask calls

21 messages 2010/01/03

[#27437] [Feature #2561] 1.8.7 Patch reduces time cost of Rational operations by 50%. — Kurt Stephens <redmine@...>

Feature #2561: 1.8.7 Patch reduces time cost of Rational operations by 50%.

9 messages 2010/01/06

[#27447] [Bug #2564] [patch] re-initialize timer_thread_{lock,cond} after fork — Aliaksey Kandratsenka <redmine@...>

Bug #2564: [patch] re-initialize timer_thread_{lock,cond} after fork

18 messages 2010/01/06

[#27545] [Feature #2594] 1.8.7 Patch: Reduce time spent in gc.c is_pointer_to_heap(). — Kurt Stephens <redmine@...>

Feature #2594: 1.8.7 Patch: Reduce time spent in gc.c is_pointer_to_heap().

8 messages 2010/01/11

[#27635] [Bug #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported? — Hongli Lai <redmine@...>

Bug #2619: Proposed method: Process.fork_supported?

45 messages 2010/01/20
[#27643] [Feature #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported? — Luis Lavena <redmine@...> 2010/01/21

Issue #2619 has been updated by Luis Lavena.

[#27678] Re: [Feature #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2010/01/22

Hi,

[#27684] Re: [Feature #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported? — Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...> 2010/01/22

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

[#27708] Re: [Feature #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2010/01/22

Hi,

[#27646] Re: [Bug #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported? — Tanaka Akira <akr@...> 2010/01/21

2010/1/21 Hongli Lai <redmine@ruby-lang.org>:

[#27652] Re: [Bug #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported? — Hongli Lai <hongli@...99.net> 2010/01/21

On 1/21/10 5:20 AM, Tanaka Akira wrote:

[#27653] Re: [Bug #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported? — Tanaka Akira <akr@...> 2010/01/21

2010/1/21 Hongli Lai <hongli@plan99.net>:

[#27662] Re: [Bug #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported? — Vladimir Sizikov <vsizikov@...> 2010/01/21

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org> wrote:

[#27698] [Bug #2629] ConditionVariable#wait(mutex, timeout) should return whether the condition was signalled, not the waited time — Hongli Lai <redmine@...>

Bug #2629: ConditionVariable#wait(mutex, timeout) should return whether the condition was signalled, not the waited time

8 messages 2010/01/22

[#27722] [Feature #2635] Unbundle rdoc — Yui NARUSE <redmine@...>

Feature #2635: Unbundle rdoc

14 messages 2010/01/23

[#27757] [Bug #2638] ruby-1.9.1-p37[68] build on aix5.3 with gcc-4.2 failed to run for me because it ignores where libgcc is located. — Joel Soete <redmine@...>

Bug #2638: ruby-1.9.1-p37[68] build on aix5.3 with gcc-4.2 failed to run for me because it ignores where libgcc is located.

10 messages 2010/01/24

[#27778] [Bug #2641] Seg fault running miniruby during ruby build on Haiku — Alexander von Gluck <redmine@...>

Bug #2641: Seg fault running miniruby during ruby build on Haiku

10 messages 2010/01/25

[#27791] [Bug #2644] memory over-allocation with regexp — Greg Hazel <redmine@...>

Bug #2644: memory over-allocation with regexp

12 messages 2010/01/25

[#27794] [Bug #2647] Lack of testing for String#split — Hugh Sasse <redmine@...>

Bug #2647: Lack of testing for String#split

14 messages 2010/01/25

[#27912] [Bug #2669] mkmf find_executable doesn't find .bat files — Roger Pack <redmine@...>

Bug #2669: mkmf find_executable doesn't find .bat files

11 messages 2010/01/27

[#27930] [Bug:trunk] some behavior changes of lib/csv.rb between 1.8 and 1.9 — Yusuke ENDOH <mame@...>

Hi jeg2, or anyone who knows the implementation of FasterCSV,

15 messages 2010/01/28
[#27931] Re: [Bug:trunk] some behavior changes of lib/csv.rb between 1.8 and 1.9 — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2010/01/28

On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Yusuke ENDOH wrote:

[ruby-core:27635] [Bug #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported?

From: Hongli Lai <redmine@...>
Date: 2010-01-20 15:30:57 UTC
List: ruby-core #27635
Bug #2619: Proposed method: Process.fork_supported?
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2619

Author: Hongli Lai
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-01-20) [x86_64-darwin10.2.0]

It used to be that Process.fork is available on all POSIX platforms. With Ruby 1.9 that is no longer the case thanks to the fact that pthreads and fork cannot be combined on some platforms (CANNOT_FORK_WITH_PTHREAD). This makes it difficult to determine whether the current Ruby interpreter supports forking without actually calling fork.

I propose a method Process.fork_supported? which returns whether fork is supported on the current platform. See attached patch.

I realize that Process.spawn is the recommended way on Ruby 1.9 to spawn subprocesses, but there are times when forking without exec() is more efficient. I want to be able to use fork on platforms where it is fully supported, falling back to Process.spawn otherwise.

Specific use case:
Phusion Passenger is a Ruby web application server. It tries to conserve memory and reduce startup time by preloading an application's source code into a process, then forking multiple child processes that act as worker processes. This way spawning N worker instances of an application only takes L + N * F time instead of N * (L + F) time, where:
- L = the time it takes to load the source code
- F = the time it takes to fork a process


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