JEP 102 Process Review

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Tue Mar 24 19:25:20 UTC 2015


On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
> 3) "process reaper”, maybe
>     “Process-Reaper-“ + monotonically increasing ID ( similar to
>     ForkJoin worker threads, or other ). But I do accept that this
>     is the existing name for the reaper threads.
>

Nothing interesting is supposed to be happening in one of these process
reaper threads  ... ideally they wouldn't exist at all ..., so giving them
a more identifiable name shouldn't help - just add overhead?



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