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diff --git a/doc/api/child_process.md b/doc/api/child_process.md index 372f8bbaf44..e71bf89f913 100644 --- a/doc/api/child_process.md +++ b/doc/api/child_process.md @@ -661,6 +661,12 @@ child registers an event handler for the [`'disconnect'`][] event or the [`'message'`][] event. This allows the child to exit normally without the process being held open by the open IPC channel.* +On UNIX-like operating systems, the [`child_process.spawn()`][] method +performs memory operations synchronously before decoupling the event loop +from the child. Applications with a large memory footprint may find frequent +[`child_process.spawn()`][] calls to be a bottleneck. For more information, +see [V8 issue 7381](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=7381). + See also: [`child_process.exec()`][] and [`child_process.fork()`][]. ## Synchronous Process Creation |