RFR: 8034944: (process) Improve subprocess handling on Solaris

[Rob McKenna]

Just when I thought I beat you to it Martin. :)

On 21/03/14 18:32, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> OK, latest webrev looks much smaller, and appears to have only a port 
> of changes from my changes to Linux from a few years ago.  (please 
> confirm).  If so, Looks Good To Me.

Yup, everything that is in this webrev comes from your port. (though 
conversely not everything from your fix was ported over) And yep, this 
is a "sideport".

>
> While looking at this, I think bumping the thread stack size by a 
> factor of 2 (32k => 64k) seems timely, since native stack requirements 
> (native sizes, alignments and overhead) seem to increase over time. 
>  But I'd put that into a separate change.

Thanks for the comment, I'll take an AI.

     -Rob

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> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Rob McKenna <rob.mckenna at oracle.com 
> <mailto:rob.mckenna at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     ..just realised I had an out of date webrev up there, I've just
>     updated in place in case anyone is looking at it.
>
>         -Rob
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>     On 21/03/14 17:43, Rob McKenna wrote:
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>         Hi folks,
>
>         I'd like to push this change into JDK8 & 7. There is other
>         work going on in 9 which will supersede this fix so there is
>         likely no point in pushing to that release.
>
>         This is backport of the threadpool specific changes from
>         https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6944584 along with
>         some cosmetic changes in order to keep the code somewhat similar.
>
>         In a nutshell a new process reaper thread was spawned for
>         every Process created by the JDK. This fix runs these reaper
>         threads in a thread pool to save on thread creation when
>         creating a lot of new processes.
>
>         http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~robm/8034944/webrev.01/
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Erobm/8034944/webrev.01/>
>
>             -Rob
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