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in thread Managing the fork/execing and reaping of child processes

System is CentOS. I don't know what kind of PID limits there are. When the freeze occurs, there's no CPU being used on the box (I'm the only occupant currently). There are no zombies. What are you referring to by "tracing"?
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Re^4: Managing the fork/execing and reaping of child processes
by QM (Parson) on Jul 17, 2015 at 08:20 UTC
    "Tracing" could be something as simple as sprinkling
    print STDERR "This is line ", __LINE__, "\n"

    most everywhere, to using the debugger with actions on interesting lines, to one of the modules that wraps around the bytecode.

    -QM
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