Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!CS.UCL.AC.UK!C.Robbins From: C.Robbins@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Colin Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ Subject: Re: quipu Message-ID: <8911281144.AA28313@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 28 Nov 89 10:25:26 GMT References: <8911280905.AA20698@alphard.cs.utk.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: quipu-support@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 This message should have gone to quipu-support@cs.ucl.ac.uk > When ros.quipu terminates does it release/deallocate the core memory it had used to load the > data base from disk ? Yes. Don't all processes release their core memory when they terminate ? > Is killing ros.quipu abruptly ok or does that have any > detrimental side affects ? It depends how you kill it. If you use a catchable signal, such as SIGINT or SIGHUP, it will close all connections cleanly. If you use something like SIGKILL, connections will be ripped out, so DUA/DSAs connected won't see a nice shutdown. Colin Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com