Guests on the MOO

Christopher Unkel (cunkel@us.itd.umich.edu)
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:02:32 PDT


On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Brian E. Murfin wrote:

> Oops, one more question, I have three processes running when the MOO is 
> up.  Is this normal? If not, how can it be corrected?  (I have the latest 
> version of LambdaMOO running on a Silicon Graphics machine under Irix.) 

This is normal.  The server uses two accessory processes to perform 
host-name and host-address lookups with timeouts.  (The processes are 
relatively small.)

When the MOO is checkpointing, you'll see a fourth (big) process, unless 
you've turned forked checkpointing off.

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