Hello again dear monks,
Screaming for help twice in a day, what can I say, I hate Mondays...
So here's the thing. I created a server which receives messages and creates child processes to handle these messages. Everything went fine till today, when I made a simple test, sending the same message 100 times. Well, my server creates exactly 64 child processes and then starts returning undef (as far as I know, ths means that fork() has failed). I konw that there are some limits concerning the number of pseudo-processes running at the same time, because they really make part of the same process and stuff. The thing is I don't need these 100 processes to run concurently. That's why i am exiting the child process (with exit 0) when its job is finished. So I don't have 64 processes running in parallel, I have only 2 or 3, depending on the time of exit. But even if I serialize the process and wait for the child to exit before creating a new child, I get this 64. For what I see, even after exit, the child is still counted as alive. That's why I want to vizualize all the pseudo-processes running at a given time. As 64 is not 42, I suppose there has to be a logical explanation for this and I beg you to save my stormy Monday.
Thanks.
PS: Sorry I didn't put any code in but the application contains several packages and it is really difficult to assemble it as a simple example.

In reply to fork on windows - viewing pseudo-processes by Razvanica

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