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DateMon, 14 Jan 2002 10:05:26 -0200 (BRST)
FromRik van Riel <>
SubjectRe: Linux 2.4.18pre3-ac1
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
>  From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
>
>    But for make -j the forking is done by make and it is nearly a
>    fork bomb
>
> Someone has probably mentioned this, but it is important to recognize
> that make uses vfork().

Indeed.  In the beginning I was also afraid I'd hit the fork()
problem Eric mentions, but after running lots of tests I can't
really say it has shown up in the profiles anywhere.

I'm sure you could make a benchmark to clearly show it, but for
most common workloads it doesn't seem to be much of an issue.
A possible exception to this is apache, I need to look into that
a bit more.

regards,

Rik
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