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I want the whole thing to come down. To me, that's preferable to a process silently crashing. Worse still, Linux's OOM killer can kill anything it wants. This i
by secondcoming 6y ago
I want the whole thing to come down. To me, that's preferable to a process silently crashing. Worse still, Linux's OOM killer can kill anything it wants. This is all fine if your processes are truly independent, but if they're not then you've not really gained much by using processes.
- gpderetta 6y agoprocesses do provide well defined boundaries that can guarantee the integrity of each component separately, so it is realistic to be able to design an application that can survive the loss of one component even in a memory unsafe language.