Commit 25e5ae41 authored by Jamie Davis's avatar Jamie Davis Committed by James M Snell
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doc: note synchronous part of child_process.spawn

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: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/14917

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/21234


Reviewed-By: default avatarGireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: default avatarJames M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: default avatarBen Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: default avatarTrivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
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