[racket] dumping or forking racket processes

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 18 16:18:21 EDT 2010

At Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:43:58 -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> Thinking about long-running servers... Has anyone looked into 
> core-dumping a Racket process image so that it can be loaded as a new 
> process quickly (a la Emacs)? 

Long ago. I gave up after a while, but maybe someone who knows more
could make it work.

> Or looked into forking a pool of Racket 
> processes (a la Apache) to use process isolation to be resilient in case 
> of problems like memory leaks?

I haven't tried that. Using fork() via the FFI might work.



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