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doc: note synchronous part of child_process.spawn by davisjam · Pull Request #21234 · nodejs/node

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If an application has a large RSS (GB), jorangreef
observed that child_process.spawn will block the
event loop for ms-s.

This is surprising behavior and merits documentation.

Refs: nodejs#14917

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Jun 9, 2018

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jasnell pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Jun 21, 2018 
If an application has a large RSS (GB), jorangreef
observed that child_process.spawn will block the
event loop for ms-s.

This is surprising behavior and merits documentation.

Refs: #14917

PR-URL: #21234
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>

targos pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Jun 22, 2018 
If an application has a large RSS (GB), jorangreef
observed that child_process.spawn will block the
event loop for ms-s.

This is surprising behavior and merits documentation.

Refs: #14917

PR-URL: #21234
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>