Re: Fork timing numbers for shared page tables

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 16:21:30 EST


On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:59:07PM -0500, Dave McCracken wrote:
> I don't know why exec introduces a small penalty for small tasks. I'm
> working on some optimizations that might help.

Compare against vfork() to see what kind of best case is possible, and
how much of the overhead in small tasks is just in non-vm overhead.

                -ben
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