On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Aaron Klotz <akl...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Did the now-defunct exit(0) project ever come up in this discussion? > > See bugs 662444 and 826143. This was a perf team project back in the > Snappy days where the objective was to write important data to disk ASAP, > then exit(0) without doing a bunch of cleanup. The argument for this was > that, yes, during development we want to make sure that we are properly > cleaning up after ourselves, but there is no reason for end users with opt > builds to be waiting around while Firefox spends a bunch of time destroying > things that are going to be wiped anyway by process termination. > We already do _exit(0) in content processes in non-debug e10s, in ContentChild::ActorDestroy(). A lot of the mess that Nicolas has had to deal with in shutdown is in debug builds (see bug 1215265 and friends), so exit(0) won't help with that. > > Aaron > > > On 6/30/2016 2:49 AM, Nicolas Silva wrote: > >> Hi dev-platform, >> >> We had a session about shutdown problems during the London workweek. I >> did a writeup of what was discussed and as it grew into a large-ish >> piece, I put it in a wiki page (instead of the email I intended to send >> initially) [1]. >> There's been a lot of work on reducing shutdown crashes/hangs >> (especially with e10s) this year, but we still have a lot of work to do >> [2]. >> >> The page contains some discussions about the kinds of issues we ran into >> in the gfx team and of how we went about addressing some of them. If you >> are working on shutdown problems, you may (or may not) find useful >> information in there. If you have some experience with dealing with >> shutdown bugs, I encourage you to do a brain dump on that wiki page. >> >> There's also a two-phase shutdown proposal briefly described in there >> [3], that is worth discussing because it would involve some cooperation >> between different modules. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Nical >> >> [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Shutdown_issues >> [2] >> >> https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/search/?product=Firefox&shutdown_progress=shutdown&_facets=signature&_columns=date&_columns=signature&_columns=version&_columns=build_id&_columns=platform&_columns=shutdown_progress#facet-signature >> [3] >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Shutdown_issues#Two-phase_shutdown_proposal >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
